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Dear Prudence | My Wife Thinks I Had an Emotional Affair With My Best Friend. Help!

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4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Lizzie O’Leary (the host of Slate’s What Next: TBD) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about what to do when your mother backed out of pre-arranged babysitting duties to go on a cruise, whether or not you’re being emotionally unfaithful to your partner, and what to do with a friend who’s great one-on-one but not-so-great in groups. 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 Maura Currie and Anuli Ononye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to dear prudence. I'm your prudence. Today I'll be answering questions from a listener whose mother backed out of prearranged

1:15.0

grandma babysitting duties to go on a cruise and not even a very special cruise.

1:19.8

Another whose wife accused them of being emotionally unfaithful due to their friendship

1:24.0

with an ex-girlfriend and a debut novelist whose family has not even bothered to read their

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book. Here to help me out is Lizzie O'Leary. She's the host of Slates What Next T-B-D Podcast, which provides a guide to the tech industry and the world that's creating for us to live in.

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In addition to our work at Slate, Lizzie has worked for a Peabody Award winning team at ABC, and as a correspondent

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