Hey everyone, welcome back to Teenager Therapy. I'm Gaiow. I'm Thomas. I'm Kayla. And welcome back. If you missed it, Mark is gone. He's no longer part of the podcast.

Forever, sad face, forever. Well, my side is actually empty. Literally. So if you don't know what happened, listen to the last episode. But yeah, he's gone forever.

I feel like forever is a concept. A lot of us don't really know how to process. It really causes a lot of grief knowing not everything is forever.

And that's the topic of this episode actually. That was a really nice idea. It's just like so excited. I know I was like jump right into it.

Well, we got to keep them hooked. No, yeah. But also, I mean, separate like Mark said that he might join every once in a while. Just like Isaac, just like Isaac.

It's not forever. Holiday specials. It's like occasional appearances. Yeah, we hope he will join. But also hanging on to that hope isn't always a healthiest, which is another thing we'll be talking about in this episode.

Please, let's start it. That was really good. Honestly, it's so funny. Like it always works out like someone says something that perfectly said.

Yeah, so like this episode is all about dealing with losing someone you love, whether it's like a breakup, friendship, even a thing.

Because I mean, in general, grief, when you experience grief, that's usually caused by losing a person, friend or thing or slash object.

And so have gone through a lot of that. I mean, it's so funny that I feel like that I said last episode that this podcast is nicer when I get to just tell my story and now give advice. Yet I always start every podcast by just giving advice, which is so weird.

Because I know I have a story to tell. Anyways, so I am currently going through. I'm in my healing era, essentially. I'm going through.

Yeah, it's like, you know, it's split up like a breakup, whatever you want to call it. And I think when people say breakup, they always think romantically. But again, that I'm using that very general. It could be like family friends or a lover.

So I'm going through a breakup that is really weird. I mean, I've gone through a couple. I remember. I think, okay.

So I've gone through breakups before. But I've, I've never gone through a breakup where like two people still have love for each other. If that makes sense.

I think a lot of the breakups you see in general is one person didn't love you as much. So you had to split apart like in friendships. It's like, oh, I gave a lot of love to this friend, but they didn't care about me.

So I like split up from that friend in relationship. Same thing. But I don't hear a lot of people talking often about when two people that still love each other, but it just doesn't work out for whatever reason.

And differences in values, beliefs, whatever it might be. And it really sucks because healthy love doesn't always mean it will last.

And I think a lot of us are conditioned to believe that if it's healthy, it's essentially like guaranteed to work out. But that's not always the case. And that's, that's what happened with me.

So there's this person in my life that I had been very, very close to for a couple of years. They were someone that I really appreciated. I really loved and I really loved being around them.

I don't know. I just really thought they they vary. They I got along with them really well. It was it was just a good friendship. Like I genuinely love them as a person. They were like they were comfortable around them. It was fun to be around them.

And I like talking to them. And so I really I really had a lot of a lot of love for this person. And then over the past week, we just both came to realize and understand that it wasn't going to work out. We had to go our separate ways.

And this is for many reasons that don't necessarily want to get into, but just know in general, there were circumstances beyond our control that prevented us from truly being there for each other and supporting each other in the ways that we both required.

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