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

Here. Here. Here. Here. My name is Sierra de Mulder. And I'm Sam Blackwell. And today we're going to answer a letter from somebody who lost her relationship because of her partner's mental health. 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.

We are not trained in any of this.

So please take our advice as you see fit as a supplement to your other accredited professional support systems.

We are only here to offer our humble musings, so hopefully shed some understanding and maybe

some laughs about the incredibly rewarding, but mostly confusing experience that is love.

All right.

Today's letter is coming to us from Hannah Banana, whose pronouns are she her who is writing to us from

unreality so edgy united mental health crisis i don't know if i need encouragement or reality check

both neither or something else but i'm facing down the rest of the year and potentially

life without the person I really, really, really, I mean, really want to be with. He's not dead.

He just has very, very debilitating mental health issues that make him not want to be in a relationship.

And he's working on them.

But it's going to take a while and he, in his words, quote,

doesn't want to give me false hope for something that has only a slight chance of happening,

i.e. us getting back together again and doing things for real this time because he's not

sure if working on his

mental health with a therapist will even work but to me this sounds like he won't know if he

even likes me after he's in a better place which is fair but that hurts i thought he was going to be

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