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 to Boulder.

And I'm Sam Blackwell, and today we are going to answer a letter from somebody who is dating with a chronic illness.

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, no, not even close. We're also not like experts in chronic illness

either so they'll just name that out the gate as well. Yep we don't know

we're talking about but hopefully we we can give it good advice.

But said advice is only our opinion, so please take it as you see fit in your life.

We are only here to offer a humble museum so hopefully some understanding and maybe some laughs about the incredibly rewarding but mostly confusing experience that is love.

All right let's get into today's letter.

So today's letter comes from Kelse E, whose pronouns are She Her, who is writing from Ouchville.

Sam and Sierra, I am a 23-year-old bisexual woman, she- her, who feels unworthy of a normal and true love

due to her chronic illness.

To start out, I'm going to come out cleanly and say that I have Crohn's disease and for the past

four years my physical health and my mental health

has rapidly declined. There's not a week that goes by where I'm doing some sort of

lab work for doctors to try and figure out the next thing that's wrong with me.

My Crohn's has also led to other illnesses. to try and figure out the next thing that's wrong with me.

My Crohn's has also led to other illnesses and diseases, and it's just hard for me to

stay positive about living a day-to-day life.

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