Episode 659: We're Not Meant to Hold Lightning

Just Break Up: Relationship Advice from Your Queer Besties

Sierra DeMulder and Sam Blackwell

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome to Just Break Up, the podcast about love, heartbreak, and all the relationship advice you don't want to hear.
0:08.1	My name is Sierra de Molder.
0:10.0	And I'm Sam Blackwell.
0:11.0	And today we're going to answer a letter from somebody who's been left holding all of the terrible things that her dad did to her mom.
0:17.2	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.
0:25.1	Correct.
0:28.1	Absolutely.
0:29.7	We are not professionals.
0:31.0	We are not trained in any of this.
0:32.5	So please take our advice.
0:33.5	As you see fit, we're only here to offer our humble musings.
0:36.6	So hopefully shut some understanding and maybe some laughs
0:38.9	about the incredibly rewarding but mostly confusing experience that is love.
0:45.1	All right.
0:45.9	Today's letter is coming to us from ambiguous grieving,
0:50.0	whose to pronounce are she, her,
0:51.2	who is writing to us from the deaths of despair.
0:54.2	Definitely not our first letter from that location.
0:57.8	No, definitely not.
0:59.3	There's like a nice little community there.
1:03.6	Hi, Sam and Sierra.
1:05.0	First off, I just wanted to give you some love and tell you how much I enjoy your podcast.
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