Dear Prudence: Is My Work Husband Keeping Me A Secret From His Wife? Help!

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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this episode, Gia Peppers (Healed Girl Era and More Than That) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to set boundaries with your friend now boss, how to help a friend who won’t help herself, and to determine if there’s a red flag in a work-spouse relationship. If you want more Dear Prudence, 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. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, and Jenée Desmond-Harris, with help from Maura Currie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear Prudence, I'm Your Prudence.
0:05.0	I'm Your Prudence.
0:08.0	Today we'll be discussing at what point of work spouse relationship raises red flags and how to help a friend
0:16.7	who won't help herself. Joining me today is entertainment journalist Gia Peppers. Among her many other roles, she currently hosts the Healed Girl era podcast,
0:27.0	where she speaks with guests like Kelly Roland and the Color Purple's Danielle Brooks
0:32.0	about how they manage to get through the eras
0:34.1	that defined who they are and how they became the best versions of themselves.
0:38.4	Welcome Gia, thank you so much for being here.
0:40.8	Thank you for having me. So before we get started, I want to ask you for one piece of unsolicited advice that you would just like to tell our audience.
0:52.4	Sure, I think the advice that I always give that comes to mind is what's for you is for you.
1:01.2	I think sometimes we get caught up in the fact that cliches are said so
1:05.2	much that we feel like it's somehow cancels out the validity of the piece of
1:11.1	advice, but sometimes things just are what they are.
1:14.6	What's for you is for you and you have to really, really keep that in mind,
1:19.9	especially in this era where we have access to everybody's highlight reels and we feel like we're never doing enough and we're never going to be who we want to be.
1:28.7	And it's like, no, what's for you is for you.
1:31.4	Anything that you're supposed to do is already
1:33.7	blind, already planned, already coming to you so just trust in the divine
1:38.5	timing of your life and know that what's for you will never miss you.
1:41.0	It's so true. Sometimes things are cliche is for a reason
1:43.7	reason, it's so true. Sometimes things are cliche for a reason, right?
1:45.0	Because they work.
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