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're going to answer a letter from somebody who is wondering if she can make it work with 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.

Absolutely not.

We know nothing.

We are like Game of Thrones, everyone.

We know nothing.

And we are not trained in any of this.

We are not professional, so please take our advice as you see fit. We're 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.

Today's letter is from Coakless Hopefeaned, whose pronounce are she, her, who's writing to us from The

Void, general content warning for vague description of drug use and drug addiction.

Hi, Sam and Sierra, I have been a fan since 2020 and I have gone through lots of relationship

ups and down since then that I probably couldn't could have written about but this one is the biggest

pickle yet my boyfriend slash not boyfriend I love when they start like that

absolutely it's like, oh no.

I'll call him John, and I have been together for two years. On our third date, we were having a night out

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