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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 wants to be vulnerable with his dad. 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. That's right. We are not professionals. We are not trained

in any of this. So please take our advice as you see fit as a supplement to your other

mental health resources. We are only here to offer our humble musings to hopefully shed some

understanding and maybe some laughs about the incredibly rewarding but mostly confusing experience

that is love.

But before we get into today's letter, we're going to do a check-in topic.

And before we get into today's check-in topic, I just want to say a very quick,

thank you. Is that what I want to say?

I want to do a quick acknowledgement of a couple things. Number one, many of you might have

noticed that we took last week off completely. This was unexpected, unplanned, and due to a

death in my family, my father-in-law, my mother-in-law's husband, my wife's stepfather of 23-plus years,

passed away unexpectedly. And it, you know, it was sad and difficult and filled with, you know, emotional moments and hard choices.

And it did what death does to time, which is make everything feel like a flat circle.

And it prevented Sam and I from being able to be truly present and record in many different ways.

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