Dear Prudence: The “Master of Disaster” Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2017
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Dear Prudence is back with her annual reminder: it’s okay to ruin the holidays! Then, advice columnist Anna Pulley joins to respond to your letters! First up: can an open marriage save my sexless one? I moved to a retirement community where 1970s-style sexism runs rampant. Help! I’m in a happy and healthy relationship with a man slightly younger than me – why is my family so convinced he’s using me? And finally: how do I tell my accident-prone friend I don’t want her to hold my baby?Hear more Prudence by joining Slate Plus: 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. |
| 0:17.3 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:18.6 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:19.6 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. |
| 0:21.5 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:22.3 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. |
| 0:24.7 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:28.0 | Help. |
| 0:28.5 | Help. |
| 0:29.0 | Thanks. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:30.5 | Welcome. Welcome back to The Dear Prudence Show once again. |
| 0:43.8 | And as always, I am your host, Dear Prudence, also known as Mallory Ortberg. |
| 0:47.9 | And I am here to remind each and every one of you, it is time, once again, for my annual reminder that it is fine to ruin the holidays. |
| 0:57.0 | Already starting to get a lot of letters about garden variety family conflict that has been heightened artificially by the introduction of the phrase, |
| 1:06.2 | mom says we're going to ruin the holidays, or my sister says we're going to ruin the holidays, |
| 1:12.6 | or I'm afraid I'm ruining the holidays. And I'm just here to tell you guys, it's made up. It's not |
| 1:19.4 | real. You can't ruin a holiday. It's just a holiday. I get that they can be meaningful, |
| 1:24.4 | and they can represent certain ideas about connection and togetherness |
| 1:28.5 | or religious observance or family. And that's fantastic. But you also get a long lifetime |
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