Help! My Sister-in-Law Has Offered to Save the Family Thanksgiving. But Her One Condition Is Tearing the Family Apart.
1 month, 1 week ago

Help! My Sister-in-Law Has Offered to Save the Family Thanksgiving. But Her One Condition Is Tearing the Family Apart.

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Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. I told everyone to stuff it and that if they wanted a traditional Thanksgiving, they should stay home and cook themselves—my husband and I would be enjoying Carissa’s fantastic feast. —Full-Time Friends Only Dear Full-Time, It seems like you perhaps don’t want to fade out from this friend so much as you want her to be a different kind of friend to you. If you don’t want to go that route … it seems like you are doing a pretty good job of the fade-out already. Something a little more overarching like “I’m sorry, I don’t really have time to hang out these days,” works if she keeps reaching out.

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Help! I “Accidentally” Canceled My Entire Family’s Thanksgiving. Oops.
54 years, 11 months ago

Help! I “Accidentally” Canceled My Entire Family’s Thanksgiving. Oops.

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Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. —You Can Get Takeout Without Us Dear Takeout Without Us, My guess is, no matter how you frame it, your family already suspects why you’ve chosen not to join them for Thanksgiving year, and you’re all just talking circles around the subject. That’s not you slighting your husband, or even necessarily “wanting more,” it’s …

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