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 whose friend is marrying an

abusive man. 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. We are just two humans. So true.

Who have no like actual professional training in relationship advice or you know mental health or whatever we're just here given

our opinions so please take our advice as you see fit in your life as a supplement to actual

professionals advice I guess. We're only here to offer our humble musings so

hopefully she had some understanding and maybe some laughs about the incredibly rewarding but

mostly confusing experience that is love. All right so it's Monday

before we dive into today's letter I wanted to do a quick check-in topic that is inspired by a

Google search result. There we go. I was like poking around the internet for

some check-in topics today and I was inspired when I saw a

What do they call like ask Abbey or an advice column like an advice column question that was like I love my partner but I hate their dog. What do I do?

Yeah, it's a bummer and that kind of like spent my

sent my mind rolling on unfortunate incompatibilities

or annoyances or things like that,

like what would you do, Sam,

if your partner had an animal

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