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Dear Prudence: The “How Long?” Edition

My fiancée’s mother is sick. Does that mean she has to live with us forever?

Prudence and guests Jaya Saxena and Matt Lubchansky take on your problems of timing, including: Do you have to let your fiancée’s ill mother live with you indefinitely? What if you want to quit a job you only started two days ago? How long should you stay with a husband who disappeared from your life for years and now won’t go away? Plus: A listener leaves a voicemail about being trapped in a bad relationship with her former best friend, and Mallory advocates for computer-generated-imagery lesbians on Gilmore Girls.

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