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Just Break Up: Relationship Advice from Your Queer Besties

Episode 541: Navigating Romance in Early Sobriety

Just Break Up: Relationship Advice from Your Queer Besties

Sierra DeMulder and Sam Blackwell

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Sam and Sierra answer a letter from someone who is wondering if her feelings for her longtime friend are strictly platonic while navigating early recovery. Join us on Patreon for an extra weekly episode, monthly office hours, and more! SUBMIT: justbreakuppod.com FACEBOOK: /justbreakuppod INSTAGRAM: @justbreakuppod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

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0:12.9

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0:17.7

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0:22.0

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0:28.1

Terms and conditions apply.

0:31.9

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

0:36.2

you don't want to hear. My name is Sierra DeMolder. And I'm Sam Blackwell, and today the relationship advice you don't want to hear.

0:39.0

My name is Sierra de Mulder.

0:40.1

And I'm Sam Blackwell.

0:45.8

And today we're going to answer a letter from somebody who's wondering if her feelings for her friend are romantic or platonic.

0:55.7

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, nor in this case, are we recovery experts.

1:01.1

Yes, yes. Good, good thing to add to that because it's like somebody in recovery trying to figure out their feelings, sell their feelings. Yeah. Yes, Sam and I don't know what we're talking about.

1:08.7

We don't know what we're doing. We're not trained in any of this.

1:11.8

So please take our advice as you see fit as a supplement to your actual trained professional resources.

1:18.1

We're only here to offer our humble musings.

1:20.2

So hopefully, should have some understanding and maybe some laughs about the incredibly rewarding but mostly confusing experience that is love.

1:27.5

All right.

1:27.8

Let's get into today's letter.

1:29.5

So today's letter comes from skeptical romantic, whose pronouns are she, her, who is writing

1:33.8

from The Friend Zone, I think.

1:36.2

Hi, Sam and Sierra.

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