Dear Prudence Help! My Friend Dropped Me When She Became a “Married Woman.” Now She’s Back to Ruin My Wedding. She has a really strange understanding of “friendship.” ...

Dear Prudence, I’m in my late 30s, happily married, and a mother of two. My mother divorced my biological father when I was 6 months old and remarried when I was 2.

Prudence talks to a young woman upset because a friend beat her to the altar and pre-empted her own dream of being married by the King.

As Prudence herself noted years later, “I wanted to be immersed fully in the divine.” Shortly after the song was released, Prudence married Albert Bruns, a New York teacher.

Prudence is undoubtedly a good thing, but there may sometimes be too much of it. There is an extremely prudent man in Vermont, who recently married a wife in what he regarded as a wonderfully ...