Episode 221: A Tall Order from an Imperfect Person
Just Break Up: Relationship Advice from Your Queer Besties
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Are You Okay? Is There Anything I Can Do?
I find this letter very relatable in a lot of different ways because like you, I have had family situations in which my job was to fix everything all the time and lived in constant fears that people's emotions were going to lead them to do bad things. It is so painful to sit the anxiety of sitting in that moment and being like, ah, all of the alarm bells in my head are going off in this moment. That something is deeply wrong. And what I'm seeing in front of me is somebody just saying, I'm fine, or I'm tired or whatever it is. How could this be possible? The only thing that strikes me as rational is the idea that our needs
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