Help! My Sister-in-Law Has Offered to Save the Family Thanksgiving. But Her One Condition Is Tearing the Family Apart.
4 months, 2 weeks ago

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

Slate  

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 Cannot Stand Christmas With My In-Laws—and I Want to Hide the Truth.
3 months ago

Help! I Cannot Stand Christmas With My In-Laws—and I Want to Hide the Truth.

Slate  

Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. His mother will talk about my family and sisters as though things are picture perfect and refuses to acknowledge what I myself have said about my parent’s alcoholism. He told me he tried to explain to his mother what happened to my family all those years ago and I heartily wish he hadn’t. Prudie, …

Help! I “Accidentally” Canceled My Entire Family’s Thanksgiving. Oops.
55 years, 2 months ago

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

Slate  

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 …

Opinion: On Thanksgiving, step away from America’s outrage industry
1 year, 4 months ago

Opinion: On Thanksgiving, step away from America’s outrage industry

LA Times  

One of the remarkable things about our political and cultural battles is how many of them are fought on behalf of other people. A writer for Vox questioned, not implausibly, why it had become “the nation’s biggest story.” The fact that 99% of the people setting their hair on fire over any event have no direct ties to the event …

Help! Our Thanksgiving Hosts See Nothing Wrong With Their Nasty Kitchen Habits.
2 years, 4 months ago

Help! Our Thanksgiving Hosts See Nothing Wrong With Their Nasty Kitchen Habits.

Slate  

Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. I got engaged to my fiancé “Fred” in May, and after going home to our respective families for Christmas the past four years, we’d like to spend December 25 together for the first time. No one will bat an eye when you tell them “We’re spending this Christmas at Fred’s house, and next Christmas …

Help! My Sister Thinks I’m Ruining Thanksgiving Because I Hired a Caterer.
6 years, 4 months ago

Help! My Sister Thinks I’m Ruining Thanksgiving Because I Hired a Caterer.

Slate  

Daniel Mallory Ortberg is online weekly to chat live with readers. I’m also amazed not a single manager has even said something as mild as, “Stop watching videos on your phone at work.” You’re not overreacting. A: I’m not sure why your wife can’t accept your repeated, clear answer of “No more kids,” but you do not need her permission …

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