Dear Prudence | I Need My Best Friend to Give Me Some Space. Help!

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

On the final episode of Dear Prudence, Jenée is joined by Lonnae O’Neal – a senior writer for ESPN/Andscape and the author of the forthcoming book Bibb Country: Unearthing My Family Secrets of Land, Legacy and Lettuce. Together, they’ll answer questions like: what do you do when your friends’ husband calls you his wife’s hot lookalike? Is it worth taking a self-esteem hit to attend your 10-year high school graduation? How do you break it to your clingy best friend that you need some alone time? And how do you handle your dad maybe-cheating on your hospitalized mom? And: Jenée offers up some parting words about what’s next for Dear Prudence. If you loved this show, she hopes you’ll check out How To! and Care & Feeding. Want more Dear Prudence? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/prudie-plus to get access wherever you listen. This week’s podcast is produced by Jenée Desmond Harris, Maura Currie, and Daisy Rosario, with special thanks to Anuli Ononye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whoa! Look! Is that Dragonite?
0:04.0	Dragon-type Pokemon have arrived!
0:07.0	Discover in Happy Meal now!
0:09.0	Some fun, some food, it's all inside this Happy Meal.
0:13.0	Until 17th of June, Prim 11am includes one pre-selected book or toy.
0:17.0	Pokemon range comprises toys only, whilst thoughts last.
0:20.0	Right, that's it, come on, Lights out. You've got a test tomorrow.
0:22.8	Just two minutes. I'm about to reach the next level.
0:25.5	It's going off now.
0:26.9	Yeah, whatever.
0:28.0	Let's see. Where's the app? Oh, here it is.
0:31.1	What? How?
0:32.4	Oh, no. You're out. Better look next time.
0:35.1	Mom! It's game over for late nights on school nights.
0:39.0	EE Wi-Fi controls help you get them off the Wi-Fi and into bed.
0:42.9	More parents are choosing EE broadband, the UK's fastest growing broadband provider.
0:47.9	To verify I see EE.com.com.uk slash claims.
1:01.4	Welcome to Dear Prudence. I'm your Prudence, Janay Desmond Harris. Today we're talking about what to do when a friend's husband calls you his wife's hot lookalike, gross, whether it's
1:06.7	worth taking a self-esteem hit to attend your 10-year high school graduation. How to break it to
1:12.5	your clingy best friend who texts you 50 times in a row that you need some alone time. And how to
1:18.8	handle your dad, maybe cheating, definitely being weird, on your hospitalized mom. Here to help me out
1:25.3	is my good friend, Lene O'Neill. She's a senior writer for ESPN, Anscape,
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