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Just Break Up: Relationship Advice from Your Queer Besties

Episode 704: Can Healing Drown Out Instinct?

Just Break Up: Relationship Advice from Your Queer Besties

Sierra DeMulder and Sam Blackwell

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

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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.

0:07.5

My name is Sierra DeMulder.

0:09.3

And I'm Sam Blackwell.

0:10.4

And today we're going to answer a letter from somebody whose healing of her anxious attachment style seems to be backfiring.

0:16.6

But before we begin, we just want to give you our Surgeon General's Vorting, which is that Sierra and I are not licensed mental health practitioners. And I have only read one, a single book about attachment styles. So I just like want to make that really clear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I have lived my entire life as an anxiously attached cutie, not knowing what that meant. Sure, Yeah, sure. We are not professionals.

0:38.5

We are not trained in any of this.

0:40.6

So please take our advice as you see fit.

0:43.1

We're only here to offer our humble musings.

0:45.5

So hopefully we've said some understanding and maybe some laughs about the incredibly rewarding, but mostly confusing experience that is love.

0:52.4

All right.

0:53.0

But before we dive into that letter,

0:55.3

we have a check-in topic because it's Monday,

0:58.2

and at the beginning of the week,

0:59.2

we like to check in before we answer a question.

1:02.5

And today's check-in is inspired by a video

1:05.3

that I was dragged by this morning on Instagram.

1:10.6

This is why I got off Instagram.

1:12.0

I know.

1:12.3

I can't be dragged all the time.

1:14.1

Yeah, it's either like, wow, I'm anxious because X, Y, and Z is happening in the world,

1:19.3

which I would be regardless.

1:21.3

Yeah.

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