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This week we had Dr. Caroline Fleck on the power of validating other people, how effective

it is, how important it is, and how it can deepen your relationships with not only other

people, but also yourself, and we also did a skeptical Sunday last Sunday on CBD.

On Fridays, though, we share stories, take listener letters, offer advice, and go

slidunking in the labyrinthine caverns of your most confusing conundra. Before we jump into our

stories today, we got some passionate takes on two letters that we aired recently, and we wanted to

talk about them quickly here at the top. Yes, one was the letter from the woman who was thinking

about becoming a single mother by choice

in SMBC, and her family was like, are you sure you want to do that? Do you know how hard that's going to be?

That was episode 1184. And the other was the letter from the woman in her 40s whose father,

who was absent for most of her life, was basically discouraging her relationship with her 60-something-year-old boyfriend,

who was apparently great, although he was also still cohabitating with his ex-wife, which

complicated the story a little bit. That was episode 1187. Right. So a few of you felt that in both

letters we were basically telling these women, hey, screw your friends and families. Their opinions

don't count. Just do whatever you want, which, you know, not exactly what I remember us saying, but I think I can understand why it might have come across that way a little bit. It's true that in both letters, our advice was basically something along the lines of, look, if this is what you know and your bones is right for you, if you're 100% sure this is your path or this is your person,

then you're going to have to do what's right for you. And you're going to have to decide which voices to listen to in your life. Right. But that is not the same as, you know, like, F, the haters, don't listen to your family and friends who probably love you and want the best for you. Just you do you, girl, you know, which seemed to be what a few of you thought we were saying. I always find it interesting, Gabriel.

We'll say this nuanced position, and people will go,

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