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"My Friend Just Asked Me for the Most Absurd Favor. It Involves My Husband."

"My Friend Just Asked Me for the Most Absurd Favor. It Involves My Husband."

The uptopians v flaming brains

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Rachel Wildavsky
Apr 25, 2024
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Original column: How To Do It, March 17 2024

My take: The LW and her husband have an open marriage, which has been “doing well.” But recently, a friend who is going through a divorce asked to “borrow” the LW’s husband. This “put flames in [her] brain.” She wanted to slap her friend. She responded “curtly” and the conversation ended “coldly.”

Now she’s be…

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