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Welcome to Just Break Up, the podcast about love, heartbreak, and all the relationship

advice you don't want to hear. My name is

Sierra Demolder. And I'm Sam Blackwell. And today we're going to answer a letter from somebody

whose estranged father was just diagnosed with cancer. But before we begin, we just want to give

you our Surgeon General's warning, which is that Sierra and I are not licensed mental health

practitioners. No, we are not professionals. We are not trained in any of this.

So please take our advice as you see fit.

We're only here to offer our humble musings to hopefully shed some understanding and maybe

some laughs about the incredibly rewarding but mostly confusing experience that is love.

All right.

So today's letter comes from Joe, whose pronouns are he, him, who is writing from the waiting room.

Hey, Sam, and Sierra.

I'm about to turn 32.

I'm a gay cis man, and I've had this feeling like I'm in the waiting room for my life for a long time.

Well, actually, my whole life.

I came out at 24 after spending my life up until that point trying to

hide my sexuality i had a bit of a kid in the candy store mentality when i came out and i dived

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