Dear Prudence
Slate's premier advice column, featuring Jenée Desmond-Harris, helps you navigate the thorniest questions of relationships, work, and life.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 122
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
My Stepdaughter Is Ruining My House. Help!
Guest Prudie Kristen Meinzer is joined by culture critic and writer Anne Helen Petersen. Together, they answer letters about secretly contributing to a kid’s college fund, asking a friend to apologiz…
00:43:39 |
Fri 17 Jan 2025
My Mom’s Freaking Out Over My Gender Identity
Guest Prudie Anna Sale – host of Slate’s Death, Sex & Money – is joined by illustrator and author JP Brammer. Together, they answer letters about a mom who can’t understand her kid’s gender identity,…
00:43:14 |
Fri 10 Jan 2025
My Husband’s a Nurse… and an Alcoholic. Help!
Guest Prudie Kristen Meinzer is joined by podcast producer Vic Whitley-Berry. Together, they answer letters from a concerned spouse over their husband’s drinking, a mom trying to get her daughter to …
00:45:34 |
Fri 03 Jan 2025
Encore: A DNA Test Revealed a Secret Sibling. Help!
In this episode, Jamelle Bouie (New York Times opinion columnist) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to turn down gifts that make you cringe, what to do when…
00:36:11 |
Fri 27 Dec 2024
I Feel Like The Grinch. Help!
Guest Prudie Kristen Meinzer is joined by author and Slate writer Dan Kois. Together, they answer letters about holding on to holiday traditions, thinking your sister is a bad therapist, and how to c…
00:50:54 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
I Came Out. Now My Mean Sister’s an Ally. Help!
Guest Prudie Kristen Meinzer is joined by actress Stephanie Hsu. Together, they answer letters about how to deal with an ally who has also been your bully, a person who is pushing the limits of what …
00:32:34 |
Fri 13 Dec 2024
My Stepson is a Liar and Attention Seeker. Help!
Guest Prudie Kristen Meinzer is joined by Zak Rosen, who co-hosts Slate’s Care & Feeding parenting podcast – and doles out his own advice on The Best Advice Show. Together, they answer letters from a…
00:39:33 |
Fri 06 Dec 2024
Encore: I Am Swamped With Plans and I Hate It. Help!
In this episode, Carvell Wallace (author of Another Word for Love and host of Slate’s How To!) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to cancel on family vacatio…
00:41:47 |
Fri 29 Nov 2024
We Bought A House. Now He Won’t Marry Me. Help!
Guest Prudie Cheyna Roth is joined by Steven Ray Morris — best known for his work on My Favorite Murder, but now producing and hosting See Jurassic Right. Together, they answer letters from a listene…
00:35:42 |
Fri 22 Nov 2024
I Can’t Afford To Support My Girlfriend Anymore. Help!
Guest Prudie Kristen Meinzer is joined by longtime Slate-ster June Thomas — author of A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Have Shaped Queer Women’s Culture. Together, they answer letters from a boyfr…
00:42:10 |
Fri 15 Nov 2024
I’m Sick of Hearing My Friend Cry About Her Job. Help!
Guest Prudie Kristen Meinzer is joined by journalist and host of Vox’s Explain It To Me podcast JQ Hill. Together, they answer letters wondering when is the right time to start dating in a new city, …
00:38:09 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
My Wife Won’t Stop Correcting My Grammar. Help!
Guest Prudie Ashley C. Ford is joined by entertainment writer and comedian H. Alan Scott. Together, they answer letters from a sibling who’s trying to understand a boundary, a parent worried about ho…
00:41:34 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
My Husband Wants More Sympathy Than I Can Give. Help!
Guest Prudie Kristen Meinzer is joined by Care and Feeding co-host Lucy Lopez. Together, they answer letters from a wife whose husband is always looking for sympathy, someone who regrets the way they…
00:51:31 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
I Love My Family. My Husband Doesn’t. Help!
Guest Prudie Nadira Goffe is joined by actress and comedian Sasheer Zamata. Together, they answer letters about a neighbor-turned-last-minute-babysitter whose work has gone unappreciated, a widower w…
00:45:58 |
Fri 18 Oct 2024
I Spread A Rumor That Alienated My Friends and Mentor. Help!
In this episode, Sam Sanders (host of The Sam Sanders Show from KCRW) sits in as Guest Prudie with Slate’s own Nadira Goffe to answer letters from readers about making amends after spreading gossip, …
00:53:41 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
My Widowed Dad Is Now The “Other Woman.” Help!
In this episode, it’s a Slate three-for-one as Cheyna Roth and Candice Lim join our Guest Prudie (Nadira Goffe) to answer letters from readers about what to do when your partner keeps spontaneously c…
00:46:54 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
My Friend Keeps Disappearing and it Hurts! Help!
In this episode, Rachel Bloom (The CW musical comedy-drama series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Netflix’s Death, Let Me Do My Special) joins our Guest Prudie (Cheyna Roth) to answer letters from readers ab…
00:37:18 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
I Didn’t Wish My Sister a Happy Birthday—Now She’s Pissed! Help!
In this episode, Akilah Hughes (host of a new podcast from iHeart, Rebel Spirit) joins our Guest Prudie (Ashley C. Ford) to answer letters from readers about how to be a supportive long-distance frie…
00:37:09 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
Revisiting Advice from Ashley C. Ford
Today, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes from October 2023 with Ashley C. Ford, author of the bestselling memoir Somebody’s Daughter, and one of our guest Prudies, while our regular Prudi…
00:45:56 |
Fri 13 Sep 2024
My Wife Thinks I Had an Emotional Affair With My Best Friend. Help!
In this episode, Lizzie O’Leary (the host of Slate’s What Next: TBD) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about what to do when your mother backed out of pre-arranged ba…
00:40:53 |
Fri 06 Sep 2024
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