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Children need adult men in their lives.
Emily Yoffe
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Emily Yoffe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 15
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I'm wondering how someone who goes around wearing a wedding ring succeeded in the dating pool. Normally a wedding ring sends a flashing Do Not Enter message - except to those looking for flings with married people.
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People often recommend, Why do you ask? as a good conversation stopper. But that really doesn't end the conversation, it just leaves the other person sputtering for a response. I like, You'll be the first to know..
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Don't underestimate the power of the nonplussed look and the shake of the head. Letting noxious words hang in the air can be very powerful.
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As far as types preferring other types, people of the same type can understand each others' perspective very well, but also drive each other crazy because they see their flaws magnified.
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I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.
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Keep in mind that when you tell people to come see you, they might not get the idea about when it's time to leave.
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If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.
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It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.
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There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.
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The only solution seems to be for government to toughen the vaccination laws and close the loopholes that allow people to opt out for philosophical and so-called religious reasons. The laws need to make clear: no shot, no school.
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Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing to her while she plays with her cheap little bath toys in the tub.
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If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
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Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.
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I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.
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Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to believing that it is merely a canvas for members to act out strange, unresolved conflicts and desires.
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When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.
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When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.
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An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and character flaws.
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I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes. So be open about some of your own struggles or express gratitude that your kids are taking advantage of the opportunities they have instead of squandering many of them, the way you did.
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Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.
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