Still Always Suspicious
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Prudence is joined this week by Marianne R. Williams, the Librarian-in-Residence and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas.
Together they tackle letters about what to do when your absentee father wants back into your life, how to handle a friend who often slips into racist accents, what to consider when your husband admits he’s a sex addict, what to consider when your cancer stricken boyfriend wants to break up, what to do when you find your husband’s secret stash of sexy barbie dolls, how to decide whether to reveal a devastating truth to breakup the marriage of a woman responsible for breaking up your relationship.
Slate Plus members will hear Prudie and Williams discuss a letter writer who’s mother’s connection to estranged family members on social media is causing a bigger family rift. Not yet a member? Sign up at Slate.com/PrudiePod.
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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 Prudypod. |
| 0:16.7 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:18.8 | Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. Dear Prudence. |
| 0:21.6 | Dear Prudence. |
| 0:22.6 | Dear Prudy. |
| 0:23.6 | Do you think that I should contact him again? |
| 0:26.6 | Help. |
| 0:27.6 | Help. |
| 0:28.6 | Thanks. |
| 0:29.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:30.6 | Hello. |
| 0:36.6 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Dear Prudence Show once again. And as always, I am your host, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, with me in the studio. This week is Marianne R. Williams, the librarian in residence and visiting assistant professor at the University of Arkansas. Marianne, welcome to the show. Oh, thank you for having me. Thank you so much for coming on. We decided that you were going to do this because I was down at the University of Arkansas speaking, and you mentioned that you liked the show, and I said, then you have to come on it, because that's what I say to people when they tell me that they listen to the show. Thank you so much for doing that. Yeah, I'm really excited. |
| 1:15.1 | I've been listening to this podcast for a really long time. Well, then I'm glad that you're going to |
| 1:20.7 | become a part of it. And, you know, you will eventually become part of our archives, which is very |
| 1:26.6 | exciting. Would you read our first |
| 1:29.1 | letter? Sure. Okay, so the subject is, absentee father wants back into my life. Dear Prudence, |
| 1:37.9 | my mother and father were never married. I only saw my father a few times a year and always |
| 1:43.7 | referring to him by his first name, Frank. |
| 1:46.6 | He treated me more like a stranger's child than his. |
| 1:49.8 | By my teenage years, I became angry and resentful and felt more distanced from him than ever. |
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