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The Dr. Laura Podcast

#22 - Top 40 Countdown '23: My Daughter is Tearing Our Family Apart

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Marilyn is estranged from her youngest daughter who blames her unhappiness and over-eating on the attention her parents gave her sister during their childhood. 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 listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.

0:11.0

Marilyn, welcome to the program.

0:14.0

Dr. Laura, I've appreciated you and your advice for many, many years and I certainly hope you can help me today.

0:24.0

My husband and I have been married for 58 years.

0:27.0

We have three beautiful children.

0:30.0

They are all college graduates successful in their own right.

0:36.2

They've each given us two beautiful grandchildren.

0:40.0

The oldest is our son, and then there's two girls.

0:46.3

The two daughters were given equal opportunities

0:51.0

as children.

0:51.8

We started them both out with dance lessons.

0:56.6

The older one went on to pursue that,

1:00.4

to become a professional dancer,

1:02.4

to dance in foreign countries,

1:05.0

to dance at a amusement park,

1:07.7

and to be on a very competitive and prestigious high school dance team.

1:14.8

And so she got a lot of attention in taking her to these different

1:20.1

events and participating in them.

1:23.4

The younger one who's four and a half years younger than her

1:27.4

was given every opportunity.

1:28.9

She didn't like dance.

1:30.3

She didn't like horse pig riding.

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