I Ended a Relationship Over Politics. Was it a Mistake? - MONDAY MAILBAG
The JTrain Podcast
Jared Freid
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It’s Mailbag Monday from Delray Beach, and Jared’s inbox is doing what it does best: exposing the chaos we all pretend isn’t happening. First up, a “situationship” that’s giving off mysterious relationship anxiety vibes, an age gap, daily drinks, and a whole lot of “we” language for something that isn’t actually a “we.” Then a freshly single 31-year-old wonders if her breakup for political differences was valid. Was her breakup valid? Finally, a NYC listener needs a birthday dinner strategy when her favorite one-on-one friend turns into a group-setting chaos grenade. Jared lays out the only real options: set boundaries, make it their choice, or keep the reservation (and your peace) on lockdown!
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| 0:00.0 | It's a mailbag munder. |
| 0:03.3 | You've got problems there. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm going to help you from the comfort of my chair. |
| 0:15.5 | It's a mailbag Monday. |
| 0:20.7 | Hello and welcome to the J-Train podcast. |
| 0:23.4 | It's J-Train Jared Fried. |
| 0:24.7 | Coming to live from Delray Beach, Florida. |
| 0:27.7 | That's right. |
| 0:28.3 | Every Monday is a mailbag Monday where you, the listener, email me, the comedian, |
| 0:34.0 | with your questions. |
| 0:35.8 | You can send anything you'd like, whether it's family, love, friendship, |
| 0:42.5 | anything you're going through, any hypotheticals, you can send them in. |
| 0:47.4 | J-trained podcast at gmail.com. |
| 0:49.4 | We do love a true story. |
| 0:52.5 | Be vulnerable because honestly, no one's going to know it's you. Just you're going to know |
| 0:57.5 | it's you. You're the only one. And then maybe if you send it to friends after, hey, they answered my |
| 1:02.7 | email on this stupid podcast. It's not a stupid podcast. Let me give myself more credit than that. |
| 1:07.5 | This is a pretty good one. I think it's good. This is a good daily fix, |
| 1:11.5 | something to get your day started with, something to end your day with, something to put you to bed. |
| 1:15.2 | Let me be your lullaby. So share with a friend, I am on the road. I just got off of a huge |
| 1:22.3 | weekend that involves storms and shows and travels. So thank you to everyone who came. I mean, I'm taping this before, |
| 1:31.9 | so I'm hoping it all goes well. You'll hear all about it on Coffee with J-Train. And if you're |
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