Dear Prudence, January 20 2024: Should "Concerned" stay true to his Jekyll-and-Hyde Girlfriend?
He had to ask?!?
Link to the original letter here. Scroll down to find letter from Concerned.
My take: To recap, the LW wants to know if he should carry on with the girlfriend he “loves intensely” and wants to be with “for the rest of our lives,” despite his “qualms” about her. Or might there be someone better out there?
Sure there is! A hornet, for instance, might be better.
This is what we so often find ourselves asking, when we read these letters: Why did he have to ask? By this LW’s own account, the girlfriend “holds to a philosophy that tact is just a nice name for lying, and is very exacting about wanting things her own way all the time.”
Also, she “speaks very cruelly about her current roommate/former girlfriend and other people (her father, her younger siblings + nieces/nephews, other close and mutual friends).” People who don’t see what she things as she does are “at best idiots and at worst deliberately refusing to understand her.”
But I won’t spoil it for you—I’ll stop there. Kudos to Prudie for nailing the answer.
Chance this letter is fake: High. Low. Maybe. Depends how evil you think human beings can get. Me, I think they can get pretty bad.