Dear Prudence: My BFF Bullied Her Husband Into Allowing Her to Sleep With Other Men. Help!

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🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In this episode, Ronald Young Jr. (host of Weight For It and Slate’s Working) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about what to do when your fatphobic in-laws are overstaying their welcome and whether to interfere when your best friend is pressuring her husband into an open marriage. 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 podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, and Jenée Desmond-Harris, with help from Maura Currie and Anuli Ononye. 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,
0:07.0	Janay Desmond Harris.
0:09.0	Today we'll be weighing in on readers questions about what to do when your fat phobic in-laws are overstaying
0:14.2	their welcome and whether to interfere when your best friend is pressuring her
0:18.1	husband into an open marriage. Here to help me out is the audio producer and
0:22.3	storyteller Ronald Young Jr.
0:24.3	Among many other things he hosts podcast including Leaving the Theater and Wait for
0:28.8	It which unpacks the thoughts of people who think about their weight all the time.
0:32.4	He's a three-time Podcast Academy Award winner. the thoughts of people who think about their weight all the time.
0:32.8	He's a three-time Podcast Academy Award winner.
0:35.2	Welcome, Ronald.
0:36.6	Hello, Janay, I'm so happy to be here.
0:38.6	I'm so happy to have you.
0:39.8	And I want to start off by giving you a chance to offer one piece of unsolicited advice.
0:45.0	Oof, I just lost my mom not long ago.
0:50.0	I'm so sorry.
0:51.0	I appreciate that.
0:52.0	I appreciate the condolences. It's weird because people always say I'm sorry and I'm like I know it's the knee-jerk response and it's like I always want to tell people like I get it but it's like it just like now it's a pain that I just kind of live with yeah so if I had to give
1:05.5	people unsolicited advice it would be to video record and audio record your loved ones. Do it all the time.
1:13.6	Do it as much as you possibly can,
1:15.5	because the one way that I feel like my mom is still alive
1:20.9	is through video and audio recordings that we took of her when she was here.
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