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 broke up with her boyfriend because she was constantly managing his emotions, and now she feels guilty for abandoning him.

But before we begin, we just

we're begin we are not licensed mental health practitioners.

Correct. We do not know what we are doing

nor have we been trained in any of this.

These are these are just our opinions so please take our

opinions as you see fit we're only here to offer our humble musings so we

shed some understanding and maybe some laughs about the incredibly rewarding but mostly confusing

experience that is love.

All right everyone let's get into today's letter so this letter comes from

Emily self-invalidated whose pronouns are she her who is writing from Australia.

Dear Sam and Sierra, thank you for your amazing podcast.

It has been so so helpful to me.

I've written and submitted letters in the past so I hope it's

okay to write another. I find it very therapeutic to write them like I'm writing to a

wise close friend. Here's my situation for context. I, 23 female, broke up

with my ex-boy boyfriend 23 male about a month ago

it was incredibly hard for me to pull the trigger he is amazing and truly cared

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