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Just Break Up: Relationship Advice from Your Queer Besties

Episode 617: Should I Tell My Parents I Had an Abortion?

Just Break Up: Relationship Advice from Your Queer Besties

Sierra DeMulder and Sam Blackwell

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Sam and Sierra answer a letter from someone who is wondering how much to share with the people around her Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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's struggling with who to tell about getting her fallopian tubes removed. 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 not professionals.

0:54.5

We are not trained in relationships and stuff like that.

0:57.9

But I am uniquely qualified to answer this question, this letter.

1:02.4

Yeah.

1:02.7

Because I have one fallopian tube and not two.

1:05.8

Just the one.

1:06.4

And I work in an abortion provider.

1:09.4

Clinic.

1:11.1

And, yeah, and I had babies and whatever.

1:15.4

We'll get into it.

1:16.5

I'm qualified to answer this because I have not had children and I don't have fallopian tubes.

1:20.1

And because, oh, my God, twinsies with the letter writer.

1:24.4

And also you've chosen not to have children as the letter writer is deciding blah blah blah

1:28.7

blah we are getting ahead of the we are the horses no yeah we are ourselves the cart

1:36.6

that are putting ourselves in front of the horse is like way behind us and we're like come on let's go

1:40.6

so dumb anyway uh anyway we are professional, so please take our advice as you see fit.

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