Do you read Dear Prudence on Slate?

It's an advice column, and there was this question posed by a woman, and it just made me go, WHOA!

Quote:

Q. My Husband Did a Disappearing Act: Six weeks ago my husband of almost three years took off. I came home from work to find him standing in the kitchen with a suitcase, saying that it was nothing personal but he needed to get away for a while, and then he left. I didn't hear from him or see him for five weeks. I was hurt but I was also frantic with worry. I thought we were very happy, and this came completely out of the blue. He didn't go to work (they said he'd taken a leave of absence), hadn't spoken to any of our friends about this, and his parents claimed he wasn't in touch with them. He came back last Thursday. He refuses to answer any questions about where he was and what he was doing. He is also a little angry with me for "involving" our friends and family in "his" personal business. I am torn between thinking that he was having some kind of crisis and thinking that he's spent the last five and half weeks with another woman. Now that he's home, he seems to want me to forget this ever happened and pick up right where we left off. I have told him that he needs to tell me where he's been and what he's done, or he can leave again. He says he's not talking about it anymore and is not going anywhere. What should I do?

My first thought was, the TAMers would have a field day with this! So, I pose the question to ya'll: how would you respond if this woman asked you for advice?

It would be much more fun to discuss here than in the Slate comment section.

(You can see the column with Prudie's response here.)

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