67 episodes

Slate's premier advice column, featuring Jenée Desmond-Harris, helps you navigate the thorniest questions of relationships, work, and life.

Dear Prudence Slate Podcasts

    • Society & Culture
    • 3.8 • 11 Ratings

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Slate's premier advice column, featuring Jenée Desmond-Harris, helps you navigate the thorniest questions of relationships, work, and life.

Listen on Apple Podcasts
Requires subscription and macOS 11.4 or higher

    My love language with friends is touch, but it makes my partner jealous. Help!

    My love language with friends is touch, but it makes my partner jealous. Help!

    In this episode, Gina Cherelus (New York Times’ weekly dating column Third Wheel) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about how much physical affection is appropriate with people who aren’t your partner, believing you are with your partner because you are more attractive than them, and more. 
    If you want more Dear Prudence, join Slate Plus, Slate’s membership program. Jenée answers an extra question every week, just for members. 
    Go to Slate.com/prudieplus to sign up. It’s just $15 for your first three months. 
    This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, and Jenée Desmond-Harris, with help from Maura Currie and Jared Downing.
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    • 42 min
    My Wife’s Bipolar Diagnosis Is Creating A Rift in Our Marriage. Help!

    My Wife’s Bipolar Diagnosis Is Creating A Rift in Our Marriage. Help!

    In this episode, Bassey Ikpi (New York Times bestselling essay collection, I’m Telling the Truth but I’m Lying) joins Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) to answer letters from readers about an international sisters’ trip gone awry, a husband’s struggle to live with his wife’s mental health issues, and an uncomfortable situation between coworkers.
    If you want more Dear Prudence, join Slate Plus, Slate’s membership program. Jenée answers an extra question every week, just for members.
    Go to Slate.com/prudieplus to sign up. It’s just $15 for your first three months.
    This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, and Jenée Desmond-Harris, with help from Maura Currie.
    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    • 35 min
    I Lost a Lot of Weight and Now I Enjoy Being a Mean Girl. Help!

    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 handle entitled stepdaughters moving into your home, and how to stop being a mean girl to other moms.
    If you want more Dear Prudence, join Slate Plus, Slate’s membership program. Jenée answers an extra question every week, just for members. 
    Go to Slate.com/prudieplus to sign up. It’s just $15 for your first three months. 
    This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, and Jenée Desmond-Harris, with help from Maura Currie.
    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    • 40 min
    From Choice Words: Live in Fear or Love? (with Karamo)

    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, his unconventional journey to fatherhood, and how he learned to stop living in fear. They talk about his experience as the first openly gay Black man on reality TV (remember The Real World: Philadelphia?!), how his social work background helped him land his iconic role on Queer Eye, and the best ways to invite vulnerability in men.
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    • 48 min
    My Partner Sticks Her Finger in Food to Taste Test It. Help!

    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 fashion and deeply annoys you while you’re trying to cook in a tiny kitchen, what to do when your dinner party invitations aren’t reciprocated, and whether two people with extremely different eating habits can have a happy life together.
    If you want more Dear Prudence, join Slate Plus, Slate’s membership program. Jenée answers an extra question every week, just for members.
    Go to Slate.com/prudieplus to sign up. It’s just $15 for your first three months.
    This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, and Jenée Desmond-Harris, with help from Maura Currie.
    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    • 36 min
    My Parents Are Flaunting Their Wealth While I’m Drowning in Debt. Help!

    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” daughter’s lifestyle, how to deal with watching your parents take expensive vacations when you’re broke, and whether to seek replacement costs when a friend’s drunk uncle destroys your expensive guitar.
    If you want more Dear Prudence, join Slate Plus, Slate’s membership program. Jenée answers an extra question every week, just for members.
    Go to Slate.com/prudieplus to sign up. It’s just $15 for your first three months.
    This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, and Jenée Desmond-Harris, with help from Maura Currie.
    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    • 30 min

Customer Reviews

3.8 out of 5
11 Ratings

11 Ratings

Michael P. Frontenac ,

Fabulous

Great podcast! Disappointed but not surprised by the sexist comments nitpicking her voice in the reviews. I love the new host!

Playful_Bumblebee ,

Cringe voice, bad advice

As another commenter stated the vocal fry is killer. Especially when listening on headphones.

On a more serious note why are you NOT advising a victim of child sexual abuse to contact authorities and make a police report?

Wanted to like this podcast but gonna have to skip it

Flora4flor ,

Too much vocal fry

I’m sure this new host is wise and thoughtful in the tradition of other fine Prudences, however this is too much Gen Z/Millennial inflection for me in an audio format. Hard pass sitch, as the young’uns would (probably never) say. Gen X ex.

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