Welcome to Just Break Up, the podcast about love, heartbreaking, all the relationship advice you don't want to hear.

My name is Sierra DeMulder.

And I'm Sam Blackwell.

And today we're going to answer a letter from somebody whose partner is resistant to connecting with her family.

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 professionals.

We are not trained in any of this.

So please take our advice as a supplement as you see fit.

We are just here to offer our humble musings to hopefully shed some understanding and maybe some laughs about the incredibly rewarding,

but mostly confusing experience that is love.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Absolutely.

All right.

Today's letter is coming to us from Burden Bride, whose pronouns are she, her, who is writing to us from the void.

Hi, Sam and Sierra.

Can't believe I'm finally writing after years of growing with and learning from you.

This community's relatable letters have made me feel so seen and your musings are so encouraging

and helpful.

I'm writing to you a few weeks before my wedding, yay, with a ton of questions, many of which I've wanted to ask you

for a while. Honestly, what I'm feeling right now is just a strong general malaise, not what you

want to be feeling pre-wedding. Did I pronounce that right? Malays? I think so, right? Yeah.

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