#21 - Top 40 Countdown '23: I Don't Want To Be Like My Parents

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Abby was 13 when her family fell apart and, as her son approaches that age, she is reliving some of her painful past and worrying about her own children's future. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 1111.
0:12.4	Abby, welcome to the program. on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:13.0	Abby, welcome to the program.
0:15.0	Hello, how are you today?
0:18.0	Good.
0:19.0	What's up?
0:20.0	So, I wanted to call you because pretty much I just want to give you a little kind of a
0:27.9	background on me so I'm going to take a deep breath.
0:35.0	So basically at the age of five, I went to go live with my father because my mom was addicted to drugs. He had a girlfriend at the time who became
0:49.9	kind of like a stepmother figure in my life.
0:53.7	They were together for about eight years,
0:56.9	at the age of 13.
1:00.7	They broke up, now it's just me and my dad. I was still seeing my mom on weekends
1:07.2	She was still dabbling with drug addiction over the years and and out of rehab and so forth.
1:17.0	And now that's, I'm, I'm, I'm emotional.
1:24.0	That's all right.
1:27.0	Now that my boys are about passing and I during that time I'm
1:35.0	I'm sorry now that your boys are how old I missed that
1:39.0	sorry they're 10 and 11 okay and now that they're 10 and 11. Okay.
1:42.6	And now that they're approaching that age of 13 adolescents,
1:49.3	I just felt at, and all this is coming up
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