Ask Molly Ringwald: our agony aunt’s final piece of advice

‘Recently, I read back over many of your letters, and if there was a consistent pattern to be found in my responses, it was: listen more, talk more’

A year ago, I agreed to write an advice column for this magazine with no idea of what to expect. I didn’t know if I would be any good at it, for a start, but I was interested to see what kind of questions I would receive.

Well, for the past year, as your dilemmas have poured in, I’ve answered as honestly and as helpfully as I could – though at times I’ve felt stymied by the limited word count. Some of your problems were far too complicated to be summed up, let alone solved, in 450 words. On the other hand (a phrase I have used often, since part of what I try to offer is the other point of view), even in the longest, most complex and agonising situation, the essential piece of advice I always returned to was: listen and talk more.

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