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 DeMolder.

And I'm Sam Blackwell.

And today we're going to answer a letter from somebody whose boss cut off their affair after his partner found out about it.

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.

No, we are not.

We are not professionals.

We are not trained in any of this.

So please take our advice as you see fit in your life as a supplement to your licensed

mental health resources.

We are only here to offer our humble musings, so hopefully shed 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 sad individual who's pronounced her she her, who is writing from Home Wrecker Central. Hello, long time listener, first time heartbreakie,

and homewucker. My boss and I have been in an emotional and occasionally physical, quote,

relationship for nearly a year. I put relationship in quotes because, well, he has another

significant other that's not me. Our situation started out very much not cheating or questionable

in the slightest. We were friends and it was just friendly conversation. He eventually started

sharing more personal issues with me and after a while he shared with me that he was afraid

that he had more than just co-worker slash friend feelings for me. And I shared that I had

the same feelings, but for the sake of his significant other, we couldn't cross that boundary,

and he agreed, and we kept it friendly. He shared that he was having relationship issues a little

while later, and I would try to help him work through issues as just an outside perspective.

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