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The Angry Therapist Podcast

Sh*t You Wouldn’t Ask Your Therapist | The Truth About Breakups

The Angry Therapist Podcast

John Kim

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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In today’s episode, John Kim answers raw, unfiltered listener questions on the theme of breakups and divorce — the things you’d never dare ask your therapist. Order John's new book, Break Up. On Purpose, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jump into John’s new Single. On Purpose app ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow John on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Find out more about John⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Things you would never bring up in therapy, you could bring up here.

0:14.3

How do I communicate that I'm no longer interested without hurting the other person?

0:19.6

Okay, listen, stop ghosting. Instead, what you have to do is

0:24.0

actually tell the person that you're not interested without telling that passage. Does that make sense?

0:31.7

You don't have to say I'm not attracted to you, but I do think we all have a responsibility to say something.

0:39.4

A lot of times when I was dating and I knew it wasn't going to be a relationship,

0:42.9

I had a conversation with the person I was dating and said,

0:46.2

listen, I don't think it's a good fit, you know?

0:50.3

Just be honest, but be kind.

0:52.6

That's it.

0:53.1

Just be honest, but be kind. That's it. Just be honest, but be kind.

0:54.8

But please communicate.

0:57.2

If you don't, it's telling you where you're at, right?

1:00.3

And also, I think that's shit comes back.

1:02.8

I think it's bad energy you're putting into that space.

1:07.2

And so when you're complaining about not being able to find someone, well, maybe you are acting in a way that is contributing to the magnet being flicked.

1:19.0

Have you ever tried to stay friends with an ex? If so, how did it go and how did y'all navigate the transit?

1:26.1

I would love to be friends with, I would say, all of my answers.

1:30.6

I mean, in a healthy way, we don't have to be best friends, but I would love to know how

1:40.4

they're doing and care about them as people.

1:42.9

I have not made that attempt because I believe most of them have feelings toward me,

1:51.5

meaning bad feelings, or they might be angry.

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