Love Sick
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Prudence is joined this week by Sydney Hodges, a DC resident who, in addition to being interested in conflict resolution, is also a recovering armchair linguist who has found peace with only having a BA in Linguistics.
Together they dig into letters about how to handle an aunt who is over the top in the gift giving department, how to get your work buddy back after regrettably offending them, what to know about wanting affection from your wife while you’re under the weather, how to decide whether to keep your distance or socialize with the employees you manage, what to consider when your social life stops because your friends don’t like your new husband.
Slate Plus members will hear Prudie and Hodges discuss a letter writer who is wondering how to avoid being the babysitter and bank for a son who has nine kids from seven women, and what actions to take when your mother-in-law posts pics of your newborn without your consent. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon Music. |
| 0:03.4 | You're listening to this week's excerpt from the Dear Prudence podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | To get the full-length, members-only version every week, join Slate Plus at slate.com slash Prudipod. |
| 0:17.0 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:19.0 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. |
| 0:21.6 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:23.1 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:27.0 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:27.6 | Help. |
| 0:28.0 | Help. |
| 0:28.6 | Hi. |
| 0:29.0 | Thanks. |
| 0:29.8 | Thank you. Hello. |
| 0:56.0 | Hello and welcome back to the show once again, and as always, I am your host, Dear Prudence, also known as Daniel Mallory Ortberg, and with me in the studio this week is Sydney Hodges, a D.C. resident who, in addition to being interested in conflict resolution, is also a recovering armchair linguist who has found peace with only having a BA in linguistics. Sydney, welcome to the show. |
| 1:02.4 | Thanks, Danny. It's great to be here. And thank you so much for clarifying that you are merely |
| 1:05.7 | interested in conflict resolution. You are not, in fact, a professional conflict resolver or resolutionizer or |
| 1:13.5 | some other word. That is correct, yes. Are you more interested in resolving other people's |
| 1:20.4 | conflict? Oh, good question. Mostly, yes. It's one of those things where, you know, it's easier to give advice to others than to follow your own advice. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, I mean, that's exactly how I got this job. So I share that. |
| 1:37.2 | What part of linguist are you recovering from? Is it the armchair part or is it the linguist part or is it both? |
| 1:43.6 | Ooh, it's really more of the yearning to be like a real linguist. |
| 1:49.8 | And nowadays I just sort of, you know, I'll follow like a few linguists on Twitter and, you know, |
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