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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 de Mulder. And I'm Sam Blackwell, and today we're going to answer a letter from somebody who's

afraid he has to lose all his friends as well as his ex. 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 know nothing professional.

So please take our advice as you see fit.

We're only here to offer our humble musings.

So hopefully we've got some understanding and maybe some laughs about the incredibly

rewarding, but mostly confusing experience that is love.

All right.

Let's get into today's letter. So today's letter comes from Sean,

whose pronouns are he, him, who is writing from Seattle. How do I reclaim myself after

sacrificing my integrity in an effort to stay friends with my ex? And how do I navigate a

mutual friend group shared with my ex? We, 31 male and 29 female, took it slow with eight months total of long-distance dating

while also working together remotely.

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