Dear Prudence: The “Line in the Sand” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2017
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
First off, some cold hard truth from Prudence: it never works to have a chore wheel. Then, onto your questions. Should I confront an acquaintance if I think he may be cutting himself? Then, my boyfriend’s business partner is a horrible house guest and stays with us all the time. How can I cope with this? My sister thinks my family’s homophobic, but we just don’t like her racist girlfriend. And, how can I be a good friend to someone who hates being single? Vice Canada columnist Sarah Hagi joins Prudence this week. Hear back episodes of Prudence at Slate.com/Prudiepod.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.6 | You're listening to this week's excerpt from the Dear Prudence podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | To get the full-length members' only version every week, join Slate Plus at slate.com slash prudipod. |
| 0:17.9 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:18.9 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:19.9 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudy. Dear Prudence Dear Prudence Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.5 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:21.6 | Dear Prudence |
| 0:22.6 | Dear Prudy |
| 0:23.6 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:27.6 | Help |
| 0:28.6 | Thanks |
| 0:29.6 | Thanks Welcome back to Dear Prudence once again, and as always, I am Mallory Ortberg, also known as Dear Prudence. |
| 0:48.4 | With us in the studio today is our guest, Sarah Hockey, who I'm very excited to get to introduce to you. But first, |
| 0:55.6 | I'm going to declare a moratorium on two types of questions that I simply cannot answer more than |
| 1:02.3 | once. There are two questions that I get, I would say, reasonably often. I would say they |
| 1:07.9 | compose anywhere between 5 and 10 percent of the mailbag. They are almost always |
| 1:15.0 | from people in heterosexual relationships or marriages, usually long-term ones, and they fall into |
| 1:22.1 | one of two categories. One is, I am married to someone and everything in our relationship is good except for the division of chores in the house and it's making me miserable. |
| 1:34.5 | And the other one is, again, usually not always a heterosexual relationship. My spouse of so many years has been putting on weight and I'm no longer attracted to them. |
| 1:44.8 | And I don't know what to say or do. |
| 1:46.8 | And I get these questions a lot and I don't have a different answer for them each time. |
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