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Hey everybody, it's Mary El Segara.

Today we're talking about breakups, but not with a romantic partner with your therapist.

If you see a therapist, you may have had this experience.

You know, you go every week and it's fine, but a lot of the time you don't feel like you

have a ton to say.

Or you do talk about your day or whatever, but then you leave feeling confused.

I mean, I have friends who are therapists who like talk to me about should they like leave

their therapist.

And I think there's that level of like, I don't actually know what we're doing anymore.

That's Mariah Seeger de Gear, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and the in-house

relationship expert at an app for couples called Paired.

So sometimes it's, should I stay or should I go?

Other times, it's obvious that you want to leave, but you don't know how to do it.

On this episode of LifeKit, we're going to talk about how to know when it's time and

how to actually break up.

The method, by the way, could involve anything from ghosting to a sit-down conversation.

Depends on the situation.

Mariah and I are also going to walk through some roleplay scenarios, which we hope will

give you language for these tricky, often vulnerable conversations.

There are a lot of reasons you might want to end things with your therapist.

Let's start with the best case scenario.

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