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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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Emily Yoffe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 15
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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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Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.
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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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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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Children need adult men in their lives.
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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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I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.
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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 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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