Welcome to Dear Prudence. I'm your prudence, Janay Desmond Harris.

Today, I'll be answering questions about how to develop social skills, dating someone

with PTSD, and awkward gift exchanges. To help me answer these questions today, I'll be

joined by John Kulin Hill. John Kulin Hill is the host of the Weeds,

Boxes Podcasts for Politics and Policy Discussions. Prior to joining Box, she was a senior producer

for WAMU, an NPR's 1A, where she was a member of the team that helped launch the show and

produced segments on everything from Cardi B to the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

So, I want to share a few tweets that might help listeners get a sense of who she is outside of work.

Number 1. I went to a rage room and did a number on a refrigerator with a baseball bat,

and now my arms are sore. Number 2. It's probably because I'm grown grown now,

but I never realized how angry people get at others over choices like not having kids or being

single or any other major adult life decision. I'm not sure where the anger comes from.

Number 3. I cook, I clean, I never smell like onion rings. I really could make his house a home

if he'd let me. That last one was about Jonathan Majors. Jonathan, if you're listening,

you know where to find her. Anyway, John Cullen and I will dive into your questions after a quick break.

Welcome back, you're listening to Dear Prudence, and I'm here with John Cullen. Hi, JQ.

Hey, it's so good to be here. Thank you so much for coming in to help me answer some of these

questions today. Of course, life is a very tricky and very complicated, so I'm happy to help out.

Thank you so much. With that, let's dive right in with our first letter titled Nothing to

Contribute to the Conversation. I feel the only people I can talk to are either sick,

I'm a nurse, or school aged, I'm a literacy tutor. For most of my life, I never had any real,

close friends. I just don't know how to talk to people, but I'm a very good listener.

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