Episode 703: Grief Rearranges a Life Without Asking Permission
Just Break Up: Relationship Advice from Your Queer Besties
Sierra DeMulder and Sam Blackwell
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:21.9 | Welcome to Just Break Up, the podcast about love, heartbreak, and all the relationship advice you don't want to hear. |
| 0:27.8 | My name is Sierra DeMolder. |
| 0:29.9 | And I'm Sam Blackwell. |
| 0:31.2 | And today we're going to answer a letter from somebody who wants to feel sexy, open, confident, and present. |
| 0:35.9 | But her dad is dying. |
| 0:38.0 | But before we begin, we just want to give you our Surgeon General's warning, which is that |
| 0:41.4 | Sierra and I are not licensed mental health practitioners. |
| 0:44.8 | Not even close. |
| 0:45.5 | We are not professionals. |
| 0:46.9 | We are not trained in any of this. |
| 0:48.2 | So please take our advice as you see fit. |
| 0:51.0 | We're only here to offer our humble musings to hopefully shed some understanding and maybe |
| 0:55.9 | some laughs about the incredibly rewarding but mostly confusing experience that is love. |
| 1:01.9 | All right. Today's letter is coming to us from Sad Daughter, whose pronouns are she, her, |
| 1:06.7 | who is writing to us from the endless pit of anticipatory grief. |
| 1:18.4 | Dear Sam and Sierra, I'm a 29-year-old woman preparing to move from the city where I spent most of my adult life back to my very distant hometown to support my dad through a terminal cancer diagnosis. |
| 1:25.5 | It has taken me a long time to make this decision, and it has come |
| 1:29.4 | with a lot of grief, but I have made peace with my choice, and I feel like I'm doing the right |
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