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 hung up on a boy child who held her heart hostage eight years ago.

Wow.

Yeah, it's a long one.

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.

You know what I realize? It was the boy child that threw me off, because it's like a boy inherently implies childish you know I took I took the quote

directly from the letter so you know okay here we go yeah so Sam and I

are not professionals we're not trained in this anything except for as English majors so like I was

within my right to critique boy child you know what I mean the word choice yeah but no

offense we are not professional so please take our advice as you see fit. We're only here to offer our humble museums to hopefully shed some understanding and maybe some laughs about the incredibly rewarding

but mostly confusing experience that is love.

All right, so today's letter is coming to us from buying an engagement ring, but have a grudge whose pronouns are she her who's

writing to us from the void salmon and Sierra and Spencer.

Never gets old.

What if people thought your name was actually salmon?

What if I named a future child salmon?

That's a cute name.

Is it though? You're lying to my face?

Then you go by Sam, which is a great name.

You like that, yeah.

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