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
I Lost a Lot of Weight and Now I Enjoy Being a Mean Girl. Help!
In this episode, Anna Sale (host of Death Sex and Money) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to navigate being the friend who always initiates plans, how to h…
00:40:01 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
From Choice Words: Live in Fear or Love? (with Karamo)
We’re bringing you an episode of Choice Words with Samantha Bee from our friends at Lemonada Media. In this episode, Sam speaks with Queer Eye’s Karamo about the biggest choices he’s made in his life…
00:48:29 |
Fri 05 Apr 2024
My Partner Sticks Her Finger in Food to Taste Test It. Help!
In this episode, Dan Pashman (The Sporkful and Anything’s Pastable) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to handle a person who tastes food in an unsanitary fa…
00:36:18 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
My Parents Are Flaunting Their Wealth While I’m Drowning in Debt. Help!
In this episode, Joel Anderson (host of Slow Burn and writer of Emotional Investment) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about when to stop funding a “train wreck” dau…
00:30:43 |
Fri 22 Mar 2024
My Ex Had Sex With My Brother. Help!
In this episode, Michael Arceneaux (I Can’t Date Jesus and I Finally Bought Some Jordans) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about an interracial couple’s debate over …
00:38:28 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
I Want People to Shut Up! Help!
In this episode, Aubrey Gordon (who you may also know as “Your Fat Friend”) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to handle unwanted comments about Ozempic-fuel…
00:39:18 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Am I a Bad Father If I Don't Want to Acknowledge My Kid Publicly? Help!
In this episode, Jay Smooth (Underground Railroad and Think Twice: Michael Jackson) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to find empathy for deeply unreasonabl…
00:35:15 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
My Friend Has a Master’s Degree in Lying. Help!
In this episode, Jenny Hagel (Jenny Hagel Gives Advice and Late Night Trash Can with Jenny Hage) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to react to tacky gifts f…
00:36:32 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
How Do I Get Over Someone I Never Dated? Help!
In this episode, Jenna Wortham (Black Futures and Still Processing) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to get over a crush, what to do about a fiancé’s sneak…
00:38:13 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
Is My Work Husband Keeping Me A Secret From His Wife? Help!
In this episode, Gia Peppers (Healed Girl Era and More Than That) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to set boundaries with your friend now boss, how to help…
00:36:05 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
Am I a Bigot If I Don’t Want to Date Foreigners? Help!
In this episode, Michael Hobbes (If Books Could Kill and Maintenance Phase) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how to tell a friend they’re a horrible boss, whet…
00:29:23 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
My Husband Stopped Using Soap and He Stinks. Help!
In this episode, Cheryl Strayed (Dear Sugar and Tiny Beautiful Things) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about whether it’s a good idea to offer to be your platonic b…
00:39:21 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
I Spend Hours a Day Having Intense Romantic Daydreams. Help!
In this episode, our first-ever married couple, Liz Neeley and Ed Yong, join Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about what to do when you discover your birthday gift and hat…
00:42:12 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
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…
00:37:07 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
I Don’t Want to Cancel My Retirement Plans to Babysit. Help!
In this episode, Nicole Chung (author of A Living Remedy and All You Can Ever Know) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers dilemmas about a husband who wants to give up tr…
00:47:12 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
Outward: We’re Here, We’re Queer, Here’s Some Advice!
On today’s episode brought to us Slate’s Outward, hosts Jules Gill-Peterson and Bryan Lowder, are joined by advice expert Danny Lavery to talk through some relationship issues. They share their thoug…
00:39:53 |
Fri 29 Dec 2023
My Mother-In-Law Doesn’t Wash Her Hands After Using The Bathroom. Help!
In this episode, Josie Duffy Rice (host of Crooked Media’s What a Day) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers discussing racially charged Next Door drama, a man who asks h…
00:43:38 |
Fri 22 Dec 2023
I Rejected A Friend’s Sexual Advance—Now He’s Being Weird. Help!
In this episode, Brittany Luse (host of NPR’s’ It’s Been a Minute) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers who are dealing with friends who hold grudges when their sexual a…
00:39:23 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
My Friend Won’t Stop Buying Me Gifts. Help!
In this episode, the co-hosts of Forever 35, Kate Spencer and Doree Shafrir, join Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about whether it’s okay to reject holiday gifts, how to …
00:42:58 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
I Want to "Cancel" My Bad Boss But I'm Having Doubts. Help!
In this episode, Elie Mystal (attorney and writer) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters about what to do when you're wary of "cancel culture" but want to hold a bad boss accountable,…
00:51:59 |
Fri 01 Dec 2023
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