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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.
Emily Yoffe
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Emily Yoffe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 15
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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 counseled a 75-year-old married, bi-sexual man who was having a gay affair and was not having sex with his wife to continue his secret life because that seemed like the kindest thing to do. But a young woman embarking on married life, hoping to start a family with her husband, needs to at least know he's already living a double life.
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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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Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.
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Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.
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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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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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I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.
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I'm not suffering from some division of personality.
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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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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 think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.
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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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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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Unless you work at the Republican National Committee or some other conservatively affiliated organization, people's personal political preferences should not be a criterion for employment or comfort in the workplace.
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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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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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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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Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.
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