Why Texts Escalate Conflict

Our first caller wants to know if she's the asshole for telling her friend that she doesn't want her 6 year old son around hers anymore. Our second caller is wondering if it's time to stop playing house? And, our third caller's boyfriend is paying his parents way through life.

"Never send a text that's 3 paragraphs"

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