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freshest streaming service. Welcome to Just Break Up, the podcast about love, heartbreak, and all the

relationship advice you don't want to hear. My name is Sierra Demolder.

And I'm Sam Blackwell, and today we're going to answer a letter from somebody who is trying to calm her relationship anxiety

But before we begin we just want to give you our Surgeon General's warning which is that Sierra and I are not licensed mental health practitioners.

No, we are not professionals.

We are not trained in this in any way whatsoever.

Sure, sure.

We are only here to offer our humble musings to hopefully shed some

understanding and maybe some laughs about the incredibly rewarding but

mostly confusing experience that is love. All right let's get right into our letter.

So this letter comes from Anxious and Afraid,

whose pronouns are she, her, who is writing from The Void.

Hey, Sam, and Sierra,

first off, this podcast has given me so much perspective and

comfort and I am truly grateful for the insight that both of you generously

provide. I, she, her, age 27, struggle with childhood trauma resulting in relationship anxiety and anxious

attachment in both romantic and platonic partnerships.

I hope to get some perspective on my emotions and experiences and any advice for navigating them.

For context, I grew up in a home where my mother displayed emotional volatility and inconsistency,

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