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1 week ago | 
slate.com | Jenée Desmond-Harris |Nadira Goffe
Skip to the content Dear Prudence Each week, exclusively for Slate Plus members, Prudie discusses a new letter with a fellow Slate colleague. Have a question for Prudie? Submit it here. Dear Prudence, When should you go on a (probably?) date with someone you don’t think you’re interested in? I’m a 32-year-old cis woman who has identified as bi for a long time, but with a strong asexual streak.
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2 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Jenée Desmond-Harris |Jenny G. Zhang
Skip to the content An Authentic Academic Feel Dear Prudence Each week in Dear Prudence Uncensored, Prudie discusses a tricky letter with a fellow Slate colleague. This week, they dig into “Face the Truth.” Dear Prudence, I’m in my mid-30s and I have a good friend in her early 20s that I’ll call “Mia.” Mia is an incredibly smart, sweet, wonderful person.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
slate.com | Jenée Desmond-Harris
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by New York Times opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie. Choose your preferred player: For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone for a link to finish setting up your feed. Please enter a 10-digit phone number.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
slate.com | Jenée Desmond-Harris
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by New York Times best-selling author and journalist Carvell Wallace. Choose your preferred player: For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone for a link to finish setting up your feed. Please enter a 10-digit phone number.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
slate.com | Jenée Desmond-Harris |Hillary Frey |Derreck Johnson |Dan Kois
Skip to the content Obstinately Huffy as Usual Advice This is part of Advice Week: Friendship Edition. We’ll help you make friends, leave them—and even sleep with them. If the question of how to make and keep friends as an adult is a perennial subject in the letters submitted to our advice columns, then its narrower cousin, how to make parent friends, follows closely behind.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jenée Desmond-Harris |Hillary Frey |Derreck Johnson |Dan Kois |Rebecca Onion
This is part of Advice Week: Friendship Edition. We’ll help you make friends, leave them—and even sleep with them. If the question of how to make and keep friends as an adult is a perennial subject in the letters submitted to our advice columns, then its narrower cousin, how to make parent friends, follows closely behind. Over the years, letter writers have been haunted by the delicate dynamics seemingly required to befriend the parents at their children’s school or sporting events.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
slate.com | Jenée Desmond-Harris
Skip to the content The Collective Wisdom of the Persnickety Crowd Dear Prudence This is part of Advice Week: Friendship Edition. We’ll help you make friends, leave them—and even sleep with them. How do you tell a friend that they didn’t make it to the shortlist for your wedding party? Or that actually, you hate how they travel and won’t be joining their two-week survey of all that European hostels have to offer? Sometimes it’s hard to find the right words.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jenée Desmond-Harris
Jenée Desmond-HarrisSeptember 24, 2024 at 2:46 AM·6 min readThis is part of Advice Week: Friendship Edition. We’ll help you make friends, leave them—and even sleep with them. How do you tell a friend that they didn’t make it to the shortlist for your wedding party? Or that actually, you hate how they travel and won’t be joining their two-week survey of all that European hostels have to offer? Sometimes it’s hard to find the right words.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
slate.com | Ashley Ford |Jenée Desmond-Harris
The author of the bestselling memoir Somebody’s Daughter joins the Dear Prudence podcast to discuss what to do when your partner’s chronic lateness ruins a vacation. Choose your preferred player: For questions about subscriptions or your Slate Plus feed, check our FAQ. If you can't access your feeds, please contact customer support. Thanks! Check your phone for a link to finish setting up your feed. Please enter a 10-digit phone number.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
slate.com | Jenée Desmond-Harris
Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Submit questions here. (It’s anonymous!) Dear Prudence, I used to be quite jealous. Then in 1999, I read Green Eyed Marriageand slightly mellowed out. But no relationships until 2023. This year, I found out my new fiancée has been hiding a Facebook account: Then she lied about having boy buddies, then she lied that she forgot she was on FB (her whole family is there), then she lied that her FB had only family on it (many men were there).
