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Sibling keeper -- Emotional "incest"?
There's a kind of inappropriate emotional closeness, it can be subtle sexualization, substitution of a child for a partner, or emotional intimacy inappropriate to a child.. Anyway, it seems that the woman writing about when she was ten and her mother confided her husband's affair to her and then expected her to simply ''forget'' it or ''get over ...
Posted to Dear Prudence by bobethomas on July 17, 2008
Don't Do it: Adultery I mean
I've been waiting for someone to stand on their swivel chair and scream: Don't Condemn Yourself to Hell by Committing Adultery! Maybe we are all to cautious and worried that we'll fall flat on our faces. Well, I'll take that chance. I'll also say that lingering, pestering, deep seated desires to commit such an unquestionably immoral act can ...
Posted to Dear Prudence by Usama2 on November 11, 2007