I have been very nervous to do this particular episode, but when I was starting the

Patreon I knew that this would be the place to do it due to the subject matter at hand, which is my friendship breakup.

And I've talked here and there on Girls Camp Maine and on Instagram a little bit

about experiencing this friendship breakup but have not really

delved into it mostly because I feel like it's difficult to talk about without some

context as to what happened, but I haven't wanted to share that context publicly,

and this feels like the perfect middle ground to be able to talk about it. The thing I have been wrestling with is one part of me says this is my story and I deserve to tell my story this is a very significant thing

that happened to me that's been a really big deal and then the other part of

me is saying well you signed up to be a person who talks about their life publicly on the internet.

But that does not mean that anyone you've ever interacted with has signed up to be publicly talked

about on the internet. I am going to do my best to protect the privacy of the people

involved, to be fair, as fair as I can be, telling my side of things.

The reason that I am talking about this is because even talking as briefly and high level as I have about my

friendship breakup on the podcast I've connected with so many people who are

equally devastated by friendship breakups or falling out that they've had.

And it just seems like a particularly taboo and stigmatized topic to talk about.

And I think it's because it's complicated and it's nuanced and there's always another party involved.

I think there's a lot of reasons that that's the case but as you know I like to

talk about things that I feel are important and are not talked about enough and

for that reason if anyone listening feels a little bit

less alone or seen or understood in any way then I feel like this is worth it.

I do want to make a juicy fat disclaimer up front which is that I was not a

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