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I'm not suffering from some division of personality.
Emily Yoffe
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Emily Yoffe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 15
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Division
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Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.
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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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Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.
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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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The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.
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You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.
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Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for excess boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.
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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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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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I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.
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The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.
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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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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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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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Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.
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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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I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.
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When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.
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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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I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.
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