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It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.
Emily Yoffe
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Emily Yoffe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 15
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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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Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.
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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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You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.
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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 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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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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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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Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.
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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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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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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'm not suffering from some division of personality.
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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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Children need adult men in their lives.
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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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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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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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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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Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.
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