Emily Yoffe Quotes

When you have a life milestone happen, it's good to step back and reassess the things you thought you knew about yourself.

When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.

Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.

Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.

I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.

I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me hating a messy kitchen.

The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.

Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.

I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only ones allowed multiple partners.

Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.

Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and character flaws.

Most women at some point or many points in their lives will have to deal with an unwanted advance and having the confidence to be "rude" and say no is an important skill to develop.

Keep in mind that when you tell people to come see you, they might not get the idea about when it's time to leave.

Don't underestimate the power of the nonplussed look and the shake of the head. Letting noxious words hang in the air can be very powerful.

As far as types preferring other types, people of the same type can understand each others' perspective very well, but also drive each other crazy because they see their flaws magnified.

When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.

There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.

My inbox [showed me] how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything.

The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.

The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.

I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.

I'm not suffering from some division of personality.

I have people close to me who ask my advice just as I ask theirs.

Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.

If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

You can't get a guarantee from everyone who appears in personal photographs that they will forever remain warm presences in one's life or sweet memories.

You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.

Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.

Accept the fact that life presents us with opportunities to find more than one "one", and that you have learned a mighty life lesson when the next one comes along.

I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!

When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.

I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.

If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.

The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.

Insecurity is a toxin and confidence is a tonic, so make the choice not to dwell on the worst possible case.

Children need adult men in their lives.

It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

Setting up a college fund would be a great way to redirect the tangible evidence of Daddy's love.

It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.

Sure, people talk about all kinds of stuff at the office, but surely everyone has better things to do than sound like they're auditioning for Fox News.

Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing to her while she plays with her cheap little bath toys in the tub.

People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.

I can't imagine anything that would signal more clearly that life goes on and joy can follow tragedy than your having a much wanted child.

Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.

I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.