Dear Imprudence: Interfering in My Friend’s Marriage is My DUTY!
In a recent Carolyn Hax column, a reader wrote in with the following: Dear Carolyn: A friend of mine is getting married to a woman who has multiple sclerosis. His family is very upset by this fact...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: Creating Space, Retaining Support
A recent Ask Amy column featured a letter from a college student with a common problem; parents who want to exert a high level of control. Here in the US, school’s been in session for a little over a...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: Help, My Friend Is A Bigot!
‘Friend or Foe’ is perhaps one of the most deliciously odd advice columns I read; the basic premise is that people having sticky questions with interpersonal relationships write in for advice. As the...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: Don’t Talk About Us, Talk With Us
A recent Dear Abby had a question from an employer with a disabled staffer who wants the staffer to feel comfortable at work: Dear Abby: I run a successful restaurant business. One of my key employees,...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: Food Allergies and Inconsiderate Hosts
A recent Ask Amy column featured a letter from a reader with a problem I suspect at least some FWD readers (and contributors) can sympathise with: Handling food allergies when you’re invited to a...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: Inappropriate Discipline
Content note: This Dear Imprudence discusses the use of hitting to ‘discipline’ children. Dear Prudie’s Monday livechat featured a doozy of a question: Q. Discipline: My wife and I have been married...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: I’ll Keep My Body Hair, Thanks
Body hair has come up on Dear Imprudence before, so I thought this recent Ask Amy column might be relevant to the interests of some readers, in addition to being an example of an advice column that...
View ArticleDear Imprudence — Strictly Speaking of Protocol
I think we can make this short and sweet, so let’s jump right in, shall we? Miss Manners fields a Veterans’ Day Special from Every Military Person, Everywhere! We members of the military would be...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: The Advice Column of the Year Goes To…
It’s been a busy year in advice columns. Normally, I don’t like writing retrospective columns in November, let alone being so bold as to name the advice column of the year this early. Who knows what...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: Speaking of Holiday Tensions…
Dear Imprudence’s recent reader livechat featured a question that made me go ‘oooh, ouch, been there,’ from a reader writing on behalf of a daughter hounded by family members, specifically her...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: Oh No, It’s the Pronunciation Police!
The following appeared in Slate’s “Dear Prudence” advice column chat-room supplement fairly recently: Chicago: We have a close friend who is prone to embarrassing malapropisms that surpass even the...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: A “Tired Wife” Strikes Back?
The hits just keep on comin’, thanks to Slate. Earlier this month in Dear Prudence, we got to read this winner: Dear Prudence: My husband had a stroke 18 months ago. At first he was unable to speak and...
View ArticleDear Carolyn Hax: Thank You
I was so pleased when s.e. brought Carolyn Hax’s advice to a grandparent of an autistic girl to my attention. Here’s a clip of the letter Carolyn is responding to: The mother of my grandgirls is making...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: Thank You for (Proving) Your Service!
Slate Magazine’s Dear Prudie got one right this week, with a letter from a woman who’s husband is a U.S. military veteran, who recently lost his leg “due to a medical condition that was unrelated to...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: The Questions You Don’t Get To Ask
A concerned family member writes to Miss Manners: Dear Miss Manners: My brother served in Iraq a couple of years ago. He suffers from PTSD and was wounded. The physical wound is not one you can see,...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: Getting It Right! (For Once!)
s.e. smith recently passed on a question from a Dear Prudence column (3rd question down) that, well, actually gets things right. We were both pretty surprised! The question asked is shockingly similar...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: May I Burden You?
Gentle Readers! I love advice columns almost as much as s.e. smith, and I especially love ou’s deconstructions of them, so I get pretty stoked when ou passes them along for the rest of us to take a...
View ArticleDear Imprudence: Just Be an Adult Already!
Here’s some nostalgia for ya, gentle readers! My dad, who was completely AB for the record, lived alone in the home I now own, and for a good portion of my life had many of his needs taken care of by...
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