Dear Prudence | My Wife’s Kids Sleep In Our Bed. I Hate It. Help!

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode, Jenée returns from parental leave and is joined by Solomon Missouri — a pastor at AME Zion Church in Snowhill, North Carolina, and author of the forthcoming “Not a Biblical Dating Book.” Together, they answer questions about a listener rekindling with his ex (and her children), someone who’s nervous about starting a romantic relationship for the first time in 20 years, and a childfree woman who’s afraid her boyfriend’s not on the same page. 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 week’s podcast is produced by Jenée Desmond Harris, Maura Currie, and Daisy Rosario, with special thanks to Anuli Ononye and Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear Prudence.
0:07.5	I'm your Prudence, Jeney Desmond Harris, back from Parental Leave.
0:11.6	Today we'll be answering your relationship questions.
0:14.9	There's one from a listener rekindling with his ex and her children who like to snuggle up with a couple at night.
0:21.5	Another who's nervous about starting a relationship for the first time in 20 years,
0:26.0	and a daughter who hates how well her dad treats his fiancé, and more.
0:31.6	Here to help me out is Solomon, Missouri.
0:34.0	He's a pastor at AME Zion shirts in Snow Hill, North Carolina. His areas of interest are
0:39.4	race and social justice, contemporary religion, pop culture, and relationships. So if you're
0:44.6	thinking, I know that name, but I don't even go to church. It's because he got kind of famous from a
0:49.9	series of hilarious viral tweets about the struggles of modern day dating. I was going to try to
0:55.6	describe the tweets, but I think one of the worst things in the world is when someone tries to
0:59.9	repeat someone else's jokes and they're not funny. So I'm just going to let him read the tweets
1:03.9	a little bit later. Anyway, he describes himself as chronically online and thinking about community.
1:12.5	And his book, not a biblical dating book, which considers how spirituality impacts dating will be published this year. Welcome to the show.
1:19.5	Thank you. I am excited to be here. I'm so happy you're here. I am going to have you read those tweets.
1:25.6	But first, I wanted to give you the chance to give everyone one piece of unsolicited advice.
1:33.8	Okay.
1:34.6	So my one piece of unsolicited advice, and I want to be as broad as I can giving this would be to in these times,
1:47.6	which are very flight fraught and there's so much attention,
1:51.6	is to cultivate spiritual practice.
1:54.1	I don't care what religion or spirituality that you cultivate,
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