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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.
Emily Yoffe
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Emily Yoffe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 15
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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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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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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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I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.
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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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Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, What did I miss?
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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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My inbox [showed me] how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything.
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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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I marvel with distress that in 2015 we are fighting the vaccination wars. It is deeply disturbing that people who should be able to weigh discredited so-called studies instead believe garbage, and so are willing to endanger their children and others. I sincerely hope this madness burns itself out before a lot more people get hurt.
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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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You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.
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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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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 biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
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If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.
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I'm not suffering from some division of personality.
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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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Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.
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