Dear Prudence: My Close Friend Is Spiraling And I Live Far Away. Help!

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🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Lane Moore (bestselling author of How To Be Alone and the upcoming You Will Find Your People) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer your letters about friends: how to make them, how to help them when they’re spiraling, and whether to tell them when they’re making bad relationship choices. Also, since this is Pet Advice Week at Slate, we’ll have a question or two about pet dilemmas. 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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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear Prudence, I'm your Prudence, Janay Desmond Harris.
0:09.3	Today I'll be answering letters from readers with dilemmas about friends.
0:13.5	How to make them, how to help them when they're spiraling, and whether to tell them they're
0:18.4	making really bad relationship choices.
0:21.4	Also a couple of letters about dogs.
0:23.7	To help me out today I'll be joined by Lane Moore.
0:26.6	She's a comedian, actor, author, and musician.
0:29.8	She is the creator of the hit comedy show Tinder Live, front person of the band it was romance,
0:35.5	and best selling author of How to Be Alone, and the upcoming You Will Find Your People,
0:40.2	which is out this month on April 25th.
0:42.8	Part memoir and part self-help book, it uncovers the complex frightening process of building
0:47.6	healthy friendships and finally creating a chosen family as an adult.
0:52.4	We get so many questions about how to make and keep friends.
0:55.4	I mean, so so many, I could have Lane on here every week, but I picked out a few just
1:00.5	the most recent ones for how to help me out today.
1:04.1	If you don't follow her on Twitter like I do, I just want to share three things she's
1:07.6	recently said about the topic of friendship to give you a little idea of where she's coming
1:11.4	from.
1:12.4	1.
1:13.4	We absolutely need to start prioritizing friendship just as much as we do our romantic
1:17.4	relationships.
1:18.8	If not more.
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