My Ex Texted me! How do I respond? - MONDAY MAILBAG
The JTrain Podcast
Jared Freid
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Mailbag Monday is in full “tough love, but make it helpful” mode as Jared breaks down three modern dating headaches: the ex who keeps popping up with cryptic, ego-soaked poetry, the couple doing “ethical non-monogamy” that somehow feels like a sad group project, and the doctor who’s back a year later claiming the relationship ended because you “didn’t believe he was busy.” Jared’s main theme is clear: you don’t need a courtroom-level case to leave someone who makes you feel emotionally unsafe, and you definitely don’t owe your time to people who rewrite history to avoid accountability. He also goes on a mini-rant about how we digest texts like they’re meals (and why blocking is sometimes self-care). Equal parts funny, blunt, and weirdly calming, like having a friend grab your phone mid-spiral and go, “Nope. We’re not doing this today.
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:20.8 | Hello and welcome to the J-Train podcast. |
| 0:23.7 | It's J-Train Jared Fried. |
| 0:24.7 | Come here live. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm from Delray Beach, Florida. |
| 0:27.6 | That's right. |
| 0:28.1 | Every Monday is a mail-bag Monday where you, the listener, email me, the comedian, with your questions. |
| 0:34.8 | You can send anything you'd like. |
| 0:36.6 | I've got questions in front of me send it to jtrain |
| 0:39.4 | podcast at gmail.com we have two sponsors three emails we'll go email sponsor email sponsor email |
| 0:46.2 | sponsor email sponsor email let's start jared long time listener the pod. I broke up with my ex at the end of |
| 0:56.8 | September because I always had trust issues with him and his lies continued to come to the surface of him |
| 1:03.1 | doing sketchy things slash cheating from my perspective, i.e. came to my place drunk and was on the phone with a girl and wouldn't tell me who it was and deleted their call log. Yeah, I don't know if you need him to confess to cheating. I think that goes under the category of my boyfriend made me feel emotionally unsafe. |
| 1:29.0 | You can end it right there. |
| 1:31.3 | No more explanation needed. |
| 1:33.2 | He would do things that made me feel like garbage, |
| 1:37.3 | and I don't want to share a life with someone. |
| 1:39.2 | It does feel from this end, |
| 1:41.2 | from a straight male end of the spectrum, |
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