Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com. - - Slate Magazine

Dear Prudence answers readers' questions live at Washingtonpost.com. - - Slate Magazine


Anonymous: My husband won't "friend" me on Facebook but won't say why. Give me some reasons other than he's trying to hide something from me. My overactive imagination is getting the best of me!

Emily Yoffe: It's amazing how quickly Facebook has gone from something college students used to check each other out to the primary way people offend each other, initiate affairs (and say, "Hey, you may not know me, but I'm your sister/mother/father/child"). He's your husband, so I'm not really equipped to come up with the reasons he doesn't want you knowing what he's up to on Facebook. Maybe he's a bass fisherman and he's trying to save you from the almost terminal boredom of reading the posts of his bass-fishing buddies. Or maybe he's fishing around in the old high-school pond, and he doesn't want you to see that some of the ex-cheerleaders still look pretty good. It's one thing if your husband won't friend you on Facebook; it's another if your marital communication is so wanting you can't even have a conversation about why.

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