Welcome to Just Break Up, the podcast about love, heartbreak, and all the relationship

advice you don't want to hear. My name is Sierra de Mulder. And I'm Sam Blackwell. And today

we're going to answer a letter from somebody who feels like she wasted five years of her life.

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.

Correct.

We are not professionals.

We are not trained in any of this.

So please take our advice as you see fit.

We're only here to offer our humble musings.

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

All right. Let's get into today's letter.

So today's letter comes from Depresso Espresso,

whose pronouns are she, her,

who is writing from bumfuck USA.

Hi, Sam and Sierra.

First of all, I want to say thank you for being a consistent present

over the airwaves for the last few years of my life.

You have been a lifeline in some really

unhappy times. I, 28, she her, started grad school five years ago, fresh out of the pandemic.

The school was located in a part of the U.S. that I really disliked, and it was far from my

friend's family, everyone I knew, but I made the sacrifice because it hosted a very prestigious

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