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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 de Mulder.

And I'm Sam Blackwell.

And today we are going to answer a letter from somebody who is feeling isolated and lonely and is unsure why

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 definitely not in a million years

We are not professionals we are not trained in any of this, so please take our advice as you see fit.

We are only here to offer our humble musings, so hopefully shed some understanding and

maybe some laughs about the incredibly rewarding but mostly confusing

experience that is love. All right let's get into today's letter. Today's

letter comes from 20-something and alone whose pronouns are she, her, and they,

them, who is writing from my home office.

Dear Sam and Sierra, thank you for creating the space for people like me to process our lives and our relationships with a soft place to land.

I've been a listener for several years now, and I'm so grateful for you both.

I'm 26 years old, she they, living in the city I grew up in.

I'm lonely.

Eight months ago I broke up with my long distance partner

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