While you're listening to this podcast, I'm causing mischief.

Like creeping past sleepy granddad to sneak a pot of Petty Faloo from the fridge.

Because Petty Falue fuels the mischief.

Boom!

Mom says that Petty forlue is made with calcium and vitamin D for healthy bones.

She knows best, most of the time.

Fueling mischief with petty flu. Welcome to Dear Prudence, I'm your Prudence, Janne Desmond Harris. Today we'll be discussing

how to introduce a partner to very religious parents.

What to do about a spouse who says he needs friends but he's already alienated yours.

And why guests who spend a free weekend at a lake house would feel entitled to pack up all

the leftovers and take them home. Here to help me out are my editors for the Dear Foodin's

column. Paola de Verona, who's also slated Vice Editor, and Brian Lauter, who's an associate editor who co-host

the Outward Podcast.

Thank you both for being here.

Yeah, thank you for having us.

Yeah, it's so exciting. So you know what we're going to do now. I want to

ask each of you for your piece of unsolicited advice and you have to read so

many columns every week. I know you have some stuff in mind. Okay I can go first. So mine it comes from a phrase that is

commonly said in Spanish and it's very popular in my family but essentially it translates to your drowning in a glass of water.

So I think the meaning essentially is that you shouldn't make a problem bigger than it is.

So it's a glass of water, not a whole ocean kind of thing.

And if you take a look around you and you see your surroundings

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