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Dear Prudence | My Widowed Dad Is Now The “Other Woman.” Help!

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, it’s a Slate three-for-one as Cheyna Roth and Candice Lim join our Guest Prudie (Nadira Goffe) to answer letters from readers about what to do when your partner keeps spontaneously changing your dinner plans, how you should handle the fact that your father is the “other woman” in his new relationship, and how to handle your brother’s incredibly insecure fiancee. 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 Nadira Goffe, Maura Currie, Kevin Bendis, and Anuli Ononye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:16.5

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0:20.0

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0:28.8

dollop of distraction.

0:30.8

Forget life's mistakes and lose yourself in cakes. Empty your head. Fill it with baked goods instead. Get away from it all. Watch some handshakes from Paul.

0:42.6

Ah, sweet relief, the Great British Bake-off.

0:46.6

Be a style baker, and stream the new series now on channel 4. 4. Welcome to Dear Prudence.

0:57.0

I am your guest Prudence Naderagof, a culture writer here at Slate.

1:03.4

And today I'll be answering listeners' questions about

1:06.7

what to do when your partner keeps spontaneously

1:09.3

changing your dinner plans at the cost of your peace of mind. how you should handle the fact that your father is the

1:15.0

other woman in his new relationship, what to do when your best friend stops talking to you for

1:19.5

no apparent reason, and how to handle your brother's incredibly insecure fiance.

1:26.8

Here to help me out is my colleague Candice Lim, our selling sunset stand, Bath and Body Works

1:31.6

subreddit Laker, and most importantly, the host of Slate's

1:35.2

Podcast, Icy Y-M-I, the show that keeps you up to date on everything happening on the internet.

1:40.9

Hi, Candace.

1:42.1

Hello! But, it's actually a slate too for one because we are also

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