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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 Moulter.

And I'm Sam Blackwell, and today we're going to answer a letter from somebody who is tired of being a mama bear to her partner

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 or credited in any of

this so please take our advice as you see fit because we're just 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 I'm to just dive into today's letter.

It is from Mama Bear, whose pronouns are she or her,

who is writing to us from a cave.

Hi, everyone, sending you all hugs, if you want one for the beautiful work you put into the world.

I feel so much more emotionally mature after years of my own work and JBU playing in the background. I'll just get right to it. I was a single mom. I met my

current partner about a year ago and he has enriched my life from the start. He has been so

kind and loving to my son and he was raised by a stepdad so his

family accepted us with open arms from the start as well. Our days are mostly

harmonious but there have been some red flags I can't stop thinking about.

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