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ASK Agnes: Multiple Choice Madness

In a multiple-choice edition of Ask Agnes, Ryan reads listener questions with four AI-written answers, some sensible and some silly, and Agnes picks and explains. The questions cover a couple struggling with debt, grieving together after a parent’s death, a partner who spends too much time on social
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Ask Agnes: Emotional Distance, Partner’s Friends and Different Life Goals

In another Ask Agnes episode, Agnes answers three viewer questions: how to raise an emotional distance in a six-year marriage without making a partner defensive, how to handle feeling like an outsider in a partner’s close friend group, and how a couple can bridge different goals when one wants to tr
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Ask Agnes: Saver vs Spender and Interfering In-Laws

Agnes and Ryan open with Agnes’s trip to Las Vegas and Arizona in the desert heat, including the Skywalk, then answer two viewer questions. One is about a saver whose girlfriend has credit card debt as they plan to move in together, the other about a girlfriend dealing with her boyfriend’s parents’
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Recover from Burnout with West Door Yoga Studios

Agnes and Ryan talk with Dee Morrow, a registered nurse, and Lisa Hogan, the yoga teachers behind West Door Yoga Studios in Bay Shore, about how yoga and breathwork can help professional women recover from burnout. They explain fight or flight versus rest and digest, how yin, hatha and vinyasa class
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Odd Marriage and Relationship Laws in the United States

In a special Ask Agnes episode, Ryan reads reader questions about odd and outdated U.S. marriage and relationship laws, and Agnes reacts. Topics include a permission rule for false teeth, a bird-shooting rule, a law on seduction under promise of marriage, marriage on a dare, proxy marriages for depl
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Recover from Burnout with West Door Yoga Studios

Agnes and Ryan talk with the two founders of West Door Yoga Studios in Bayshore, New York about how yoga can help with burnout. The guests share how they came to yoga, explain how a constant fight or flight state wears people down, describe yin and gentle restorative classes, and announce the studio
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Relationship Problems? Ask Agnes!

Agnes, a certified relationship coach, answers three mailbag questions live: how to help children in a blended family adjust without hurting the marriage, how a couple with different love languages (words of affirmation versus acts of service) can connect, and what to do when jealousy surfaces in an
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Answering Your Relationship Questions

Agnes answers viewer relationship questions: a partner who dodges exclusivity, a couple who argue without listening, a long-distance relationship with a college student, a marriage that lost intimacy, and a couple whose spending habits clash. Her advice centers on trust, being teammates, regular dat
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Ask Agnes – Sensible Answers to Your Relationship Questions

In an Ask Agnes format modeled on classic advice shows, Agnes answers five viewer questions: being ghosted after a few months of dating, a partner who wants to move abroad, falling for a best friend, an emotional affair with a coworker, and a boyfriend who likes other women’s posts on social media.
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Flirting vs. Harassment – Drawing the Line

Agnes and Ryan discuss where flirting ends and harassment begins, defining flirting as mutual, playful and consensual and harassment as unwelcome attention, often involving a power imbalance. They draw on the Anita Hill hearings, workplace examples, how to turn someone down kindly, why a smile is no