Welcome to Dear Prudence, I'm your Prudence,

Jain Desmond Harris.

Today we'll be discussing when to stop funding a quote unquote train wreck daughter's lifestyle.

How to deal with watching your parents take expensive vacations when you're completely broke.

And whether to seek replacement costs when a friend's drunk uncle destroys your guitar.

Here to help me out is my husband, Slate Senior Writer and Podcast Host Joel Anderson. He is the author of a new column at Slate

called Emotional Investment, which is all about how we're handling money, we as

Americans are handling money, and the many complicated feelings that surround it.

So since he's supposed to be an expert now,

we have all money related questions for him today.

I'm more expert on the feelings part

as opposed to the body part.

You see the emotional part? I got that there.

investment, I don't know so much about that.

Well, we'll take what we can guess. We have you here.

So for your unsolicited advice, I told you I'm going to have you give some more that you haven't given before.

You did say you wanted to redo.

Mine was pretty bad in retrospect.

Wasn't it like don't give unslifted advice?

It was really, really bad.

I think I had not thought it through before I came on.

It's okay. I mean, it it through before I came on. It's okay.

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