Dear Prudence: I Think My Husband Is Quiet Quitting Our Marriage. Help!

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🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this episode, Shan Boodram (host of Lovers and Friends and Bumble's Sex & Relationship Expert) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer your letters from readers about what to do when your work crush starts ignoring you, when your spouse quietly quits the marriage, and when a partner’s mom seems to control his every move. If you want more Dear Prudence, you should join Slate Plus, Slate’s membership program. Jenée answers an extra question every week, just for members. Go to Slate.com/prudieplus to sign up. It’s just $15 for your first three months. Podcast production by Se’era Spragley Ricks and Daisy Rosario, with help from Brandon Nix. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.5	Welcome to Dear Prudence, I'm your prudence, Janay Desmond Harris.
0:39.3	Today we're talking about what to do when your work crush starts ignoring you, when your
0:44.4	spouse quietly quits the marriage, and when a partner's mom seems to control his every
0:50.5	move.
0:51.5	Here to help me out today is Shan Bludram.
0:54.4	She is a certified sex educator, dating coach and intimacy expert, she's the host of
0:59.1	the podcast, lovers and friends, and the author of The Game of Desire.
1:04.0	She was previously a resident expert on Netflix's Too Hot to Handle, and she stars in Peacock's
1:09.5	new show X-rated with Andy Cohen.
1:12.1	So before we get started, I do want to ask you a quick question that we ask all our
1:16.4	guests.
1:18.2	Is there a piece of advice that you would just like to give unsolicited with nothing
1:22.7	to do with a letter, just something you just want people to know?
1:25.8	Yeah, it's an aha that I came to recently, that in order to be happy, to genuinely be
1:31.6	present and mindful and content in the moment, so many things have to be going right.
1:37.6	In order to be sad, one thing has to go wrong, so give yourself some grace for not being
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