Dear Prudence: The "Regret Baby" Edition
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Dear Prudence and Slate’s Christina Cauterucci take on behavior that goes from bad to worse: a “toxic friend” who uses her mental health issues to get away with abusing her friends; a man trying to shame his wife into having a “regret baby” seven years after they both agreed to an abortion; and a father who wants to tell his preteen sons how much he doesn’t love their mother. Plus, Prudie advises a woman wondering if she can move into her own place even though she’s happily married, encourages a listener to go for it with an eager ex, and meditates on weak endings and the deadening managerial mantra, “If there’s time to lean, there’s time to clean.”
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:08.1 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:09.0 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:10.0 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:12.0 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:12.1 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:13.0 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:14.9 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:18.4 | Help. |
| 0:18.9 | Help. |
| 0:19.4 | Thanks. |
| 0:19.7 | Thanks. |
| 0:20.3 | Thank you. |
| 0:20.9 | Hi. |
| 0:21.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:35.8 | Hi, and welcome back to the Dear Prudence podcast. And today in the studio we've also known as Dear Prudence. And today in the studio, |
| 0:39.1 | we've got with us Slate's very own, Christina Cauterucci. And before we get started today, |
| 0:44.1 | I wanted to talk to you a little bit about summer jobs. We are coming up on summer. We're not |
| 0:49.1 | coming up on summer. We're in the middle of summer. And I was thinking the other day, especially |
| 0:53.7 | of a particular phrase that |
| 0:55.2 | gets used a lot when people have summer jobs, especially in retail or in food service. And it's one of the |
| 1:01.0 | most upsetting phrases I think in human history, and that is if there's time to lean, there's time to |
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