Episode 716: Loving Alcoholic Parents Without Losing Myself
Just Break Up: Relationship Advice from Your Queer Besties
Sierra DeMulder and Sam Blackwell
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Just Break Up, the podcast about love, heartbreak, and all the relationship advice you |
| 0:06.4 | don't want to hear. My name is Sierra de Mulder. And I'm Sam Blackwell. And today we're going to |
| 0:11.4 | answer a letter from somebody who wants to maintain a normal relationship with her alcoholic parents. |
| 0:16.9 | But before we begin, we just want to give you our Surgeon General's warning, which is that |
| 0:20.2 | Sierra and I are not licensed mental health practitioners. |
| 0:23.2 | No, we are not. |
| 0:24.7 | We are children of alcoholics, but... |
| 0:27.9 | We are. |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:32.0 | Anyway, we are not professionals, though. |
| 0:34.3 | We are not trained or accredited in any of this. |
| 0:37.0 | These are just our opinions. It's in any of this. These are just |
| 0:37.5 | our opinions. It's just our lived experience. So please disagree with us. Take our advice as you |
| 0:43.1 | see fit. We're only here to offer our humble musings. So hopefully we've had some understanding and |
| 0:47.3 | maybe some laughs about the incredibly rewarding, but mostly confusing experience that is love. |
| 0:53.2 | All right, everyone. Let's get into today's letter. So |
| 0:56.0 | today's letter comes from Concerned Daughter, whose parents are she, her, who's writing from |
| 0:59.9 | The Liquor Cabinet. Hi, Sierra and Sam. Thank you both for all of your hard work on this podcast. It has |
| 1:05.4 | been so helpful. I don't think that this particular question has been answered before, and I could |
| 1:09.6 | really use some insight. |
| 1:15.4 | To get straight into it, I'm hoping you too may be able to help me with this situation. |
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