Dear Prudence

How do I bring her back to the light?

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Oct 22, 2026 6:00 AM

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Dear Prudence,

My wife and I have a pretty good relationship. But there’s one thing that is very hard for me to deal with, and that’s the fact that for the past three years, she has only read romance novels and fan fiction. She used to read literary fiction and biographies and non-fiction and we really enjoyed talking about books together. But now it’s just romance novels and fan fiction.…