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Dear Prudence - Slate.com Need help getting along with partners, relatives, co-workers? Ask Dear Prudence! Jenée Desmond-Harris takes your questions on manners, morals, and more.

Dear Prudie: How can I convince them to enjoy this time they’ve earned?
03/07/2024

Dear Prudie: How can I convince them to enjoy this time they’ve earned?

I also feel a bit strange weighing in here.

Dear Prudie: She is being incredibly stubborn about both of those options, saying, “They don’t work" for her.
02/07/2024

Dear Prudie: She is being incredibly stubborn about both of those options, saying, “They don’t work" for her.

She's not willing to find a solution.

Dear Prudie: The doctor said had she been in the car 10 minutes longer she likely would not have survived.
01/07/2024

Dear Prudie: The doctor said had she been in the car 10 minutes longer she likely would not have survived.

I need to get through to him.

: This entire scenario is just stupid from start to finish. What are my options here?
28/06/2024

: This entire scenario is just stupid from start to finish. What are my options here?

Julia Phillips answers your letters.

Dear Prudie: My wife is angry! Am I wrong? What was I supposed to do?
28/06/2024

Dear Prudie: My wife is angry! Am I wrong? What was I supposed to do?

Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by ESPN NFL analyst Mina Kimes.

Dear Prudie: My husband tells me to stop torturing myself.
27/06/2024

Dear Prudie: My husband tells me to stop torturing myself.

Is there even anything left to say?

Dear Prudie: When I brought this up, they accused me of being “needy” and “close-minded.”
26/06/2024

Dear Prudie: When I brought this up, they accused me of being “needy” and “close-minded.”

I felt like we were a family.

Dear Prudie: We come from a small city where everyone knows each other.
25/06/2024

Dear Prudie: We come from a small city where everyone knows each other.

Why can't she just move on?

Will the authorities even care?
24/06/2024

Will the authorities even care?

She has a really strange understanding of “friendship.”
21/06/2024

She has a really strange understanding of “friendship.”

Dear Prudie: Relationship podcasts are ruining my friend's life. Help!
21/06/2024

Dear Prudie: Relationship podcasts are ruining my friend's life. Help!

Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by Dr. Orna Guralnik, host of Showtime's Couples Therapy.

Dear Prudie: My son has been making comments to me about how he doesn’t want a “new” mommy.
20/06/2024

Dear Prudie: My son has been making comments to me about how he doesn’t want a “new” mommy.

I am fuming.

Dear Prudie: She's going to wreck it.
18/06/2024

Dear Prudie: She's going to wreck it.

How do I deal with this?

Dear Prudie: Now he is chickening out because he is worried about what his parents will think.
17/06/2024

Dear Prudie: Now he is chickening out because he is worried about what his parents will think.

Yet he claims he doesn't "care what they think."

Dear Prudie: Am I being old-fashioned? I see other women in my range being pursued, and I want that too!
14/06/2024

Dear Prudie: Am I being old-fashioned? I see other women in my range being pursued, and I want that too!

Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by dating advice columnist and founder of A Little Nudge, Erika Ettin.

In fact, I think he’s lying about me to everyone!
14/06/2024

In fact, I think he’s lying about me to everyone!

Dear Prudie: My wife and I own a townhouse in a very touristy area.
12/06/2024

Dear Prudie: My wife and I own a townhouse in a very touristy area.

My wife says I'm being "overdramatic."

Dear Prudie: That hasn’t stopped my mother and her from treating me like a family traitor.
11/06/2024

Dear Prudie: That hasn’t stopped my mother and her from treating me like a family traitor.

I refused to get in the middle until now.

Dear Prudie: He has always been in my corner when my family acts like I am crazy.
10/06/2024

Dear Prudie: He has always been in my corner when my family acts like I am crazy.

He's treating me just like my family once did.

Dear Prudie: My brother’s attitude toward women comes as if it were lifted straight from Mad Men.
08/06/2024

Dear Prudie: My brother’s attitude toward women comes as if it were lifted straight from Mad Men.

There's no way he's changed.

Dear Prudie: Who owes who an apology here?
07/06/2024

Dear Prudie: Who owes who an apology here?

Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by opinion writer and columnist Farhad Manjoo.

I can’t believe he keeps falling for this.
06/06/2024

I can’t believe he keeps falling for this.

Dear Prudie: Both the middle and last names will leave the child open to ridicule.
05/06/2024

Dear Prudie: Both the middle and last names will leave the child open to ridicule.

I don't understand why they would do this.

Dear Prudie: Initially, my girlfriend was on my side but now makes comments about how I escalated things and should have...
04/06/2024

Dear Prudie: Initially, my girlfriend was on my side but now makes comments about how I escalated things and should have let it go.

All I got was a tub of mismatched pieces.

Dear Prudie: I have spoken to the other daughters-in-law about their experience and we all agree that we don’t like it.
03/06/2024

Dear Prudie: I have spoken to the other daughters-in-law about their experience and we all agree that we don’t like it.

How many colds can I fake?!

Dear Prudie: This love is so hard to pass up. How do I reconcile this unconventional relationship?
31/05/2024

Dear Prudie: This love is so hard to pass up. How do I reconcile this unconventional relationship?

Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by Deputy Editor of HuffPost Personal, Emily McCombs.

I’m not sure I can handle seeing another photo of her on a mountain with her handsome boyfriend.
30/05/2024

I’m not sure I can handle seeing another photo of her on a mountain with her handsome boyfriend.

Dear Prudie: I would love to say, “You are rude and I don’t want to talk to you."
29/05/2024

Dear Prudie: I would love to say, “You are rude and I don’t want to talk to you."

How do I even respond?

Dear Prudie: His kids have two perfectly good parents.
28/05/2024

Dear Prudie: His kids have two perfectly good parents.

He's put me in an impossible situation.

Dear Prudie: How do I broach this topic as painlessly as possible?
24/05/2024

Dear Prudie: How do I broach this topic as painlessly as possible?

Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by editors for the Dear Prudence column, Paola de Varona and Bryan Lowder.

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