So what is the feeling on these kind of passive aggressive digs written into fictional tv shows? They seem to me to be, at best, impotent, and at worst, complicit.

I kind of got bored by the thirty minutes or so of pillow talk.

I mean, I wouldn’t jump straight to divorce meaning someone “failed” at marriage, because that’s some judgmental bs, but you are absolutely right on everything else. She give TERRIBLE relationship advice.

This advice-giver is super into trying to destroy people’s marriages. It is weird and uncomfortable and borderline unethical.

Same here, reading them to rubberneck at the awful advice I know will be dispensed. Then of course I wonder why anyone looks to Jane for advice, since it is routinely bad or destructive advice. Sometimes immoral too, like the time Jane advised a woman to cheat on her boyfriend, rather than discuss the sex life problem…

She is awful. Also, assuring the first LW that yes, someday her MIL will die? The fuck?

Well then she has that same day every single time she puts out a column. They’re all train wrecks.

I got to that sentence and stopped cold. What the hell, Jane? Why would you ever put that in there? Someone is having some relatively minor new in-law drama, and you suggest she married the wrong person? That’s.....I can’t call that a jump, it’s so far beyond.

Seriously, busy job or not, the husband is the one who needs to be dealing with the MIL.

We’re building drama here, not giving actual advice.

Seriously....like, that has no place in the answer to the readers question. That and the last answer makes me think Jane was not having the best day when this article was written.

Also, maybe you married the wrong person? When that happens we often look for signs of trouble anywhere we can find it. Think about it.