Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Ashley C. Ford is filling in as Prudie for Jenée Desmond-Harris while she’s on parental leave. Submit questions here . Dear Prudence, I love my husband. He’s kind, loving, and generous. My issue is that he wants to go out of his way to cater to me and I feel smothered. Wherever I am, he has to be right there, asking me multiple times if there is something I need. Or if I go to get something, he jumps up to do it instead. At first I liked it, but now it’s