Good Breakups, Bad Makeups & the Evangelical Ex
It's our long-awaited break-up episode and you, dear listeners, delivered.

Roxanne Stone
May 22, 2025
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Are you more of the heartbreaker or the heartbroken?
First, we set the scene with our our most movie-worthy post-breakup moments — we’re talking ice cream binging, sad song belting, pillow weeping melt downs. Next up, we get into your break-up stories. It’s our long-awaited break-up episode and you, dear listeners, delivered. You sent in your sad stories, you sent in your sob stories, you sent in your weird stories and you sent in your evangelical stories. In this break-up bonanza, Katelyn and Roxy dissect the anatomy of a break-up — what makes for a good one and what makes for a bad one (no splitting up over text!). And we share our own tales of lost love — and also of dodging bullets.
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