Welcome to Dear Prudence.

I'm your prudence, Janay Desmond Harris.

Today we'll be discussing some really juicy letters about what happens when an affair

partner becomes a co-worker, girls trip drama, and friends with benefits who also have

benefits with other friends.

Here to help me out today is my guest, Jasmine Gillerie.

She is the New York Times best-selling author of romance novels including The Wedding

Date, The Proposal, and while we were dating.

She's also known for using her Instagram to give her followers pep talks and for providing

friendship matchmaking services, but I actually talk about a lot in the column because it

worked so well.

Like me, she's a recovered lawyer and she's a brand new dog mom if you hear any barking

in the background.

Hey Jasmine, thank you for being here.

Hello, thank you so much for having me.

So I have to ask you, what is one piece of advice that you would just like to give to people

unrelated to any letters?

Okay, this is actually something I've been thinking a lot about in the past few weeks.

My biggest advice I think for any person, but especially any like woman or person of marginalized

like gender or race or anything.

If you are planning to get married or have a child with someone or otherwise like blend,

you know, entire life to someone, talk to divorced women first.

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