Episode 614: How To Ask For A Divorce Kindly
Just Break Up: Relationship Advice from Your Queer Besties
Sierra DeMulder and Sam Blackwell
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:31.8 | Welcome to Just Break Up, the podcast about love, heartbreak, and all the relationship |
| 0:36.0 | 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 wants to tell her husband that she wants a divorce. 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, nor have either of us gone through a divorce. No, never. And we are not that couple therapist. What's her name? Orna. Orna? I love her. So much. I'm so far behind. I want her poise. I want her, I'm just too uneducated, number one. Number two, like I talk too fast. I try to like make a sentence work too fast and i |
| 1:12.3 | feel like she's so poised she she works through every sentence really intentionally and i could |
| 1:18.3 | learn as somebody who was chronically putting their foot in their mouth and oversharing i could learn |
| 1:23.6 | from that she's she's impressive she's an impressive lady. She is impressive. |
| 1:28.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.4 | Anyway, if you guys don't know what we're talking about, we're talking about couples therapy. It's a show and it's awesome. It is. Anyway, we're not professionals. We are not or not. No, we're not here. From the show. Not even close to it. Like, you could put our two degrees together, and it would still not equal the amount of education she has had. |
| 1:47.3 | Nowhere near her. |
| 1:48.2 | No way. not even close to it. Like, you could put our two degrees together, and it would still not equal the amount of education she has had. Nowhere near. Nowhere near. Two English majors. The only thing we learned out to do is read books. Yes. So please don't trust us, number one. Number two, don't take our advice unless you see fit, unless it works for you. |
| 2:01.1 | We're only here to offer our humble musings, so hopefully shed some understanding |
| 2:04.2 | and maybe some laughs about the incredibly rewarding, but mostly confusing experience that is love. |
| 2:11.5 | All right, today's letter is coming to us from Guiltegouber, whose pronouns are she or her, |
| 2:15.5 | who's writing to us from The Void. |
| 2:18.1 | Sam, Sierra, here's the deal. |
| 2:20.2 | I'm really struggling with sexual incompatibility and overall feeling of disconnect in my marriage. |
| 2:25.9 | I think my intuition is telling me to end it, and I am frozen in fear of next steps. |
| 2:31.4 | I, she, her, have been married to my husband, he him, let's call him Jay, |
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