Dear Prudence Advice by Jenée Desmond-Harris Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. Sign in or create an account to better manage your email preferences. Unsubscribe from email alerts Are you sure you want to unsubscribe from email alerts for Jenée Desmond-Harris? July 08, 20266:00 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by seb_ra/Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Submit questions here. Dear Prudence, My mother passed away recently. We are all beside ourselves, but on the night she died, I found out something I wish I hadn’t. She was sharing very intimate texts with two people outside of her marriage: one was a close friend of the