#26 - Top 40 Countdown '23: I'm Having Communication Issues with My Mom

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Kate is frustrated by her mother's forgetfulness and her angry reaction whenever Kate points out her mistakes. 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 heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:13.0	Kate, welcome to the program.
0:16.0	Hi, this afternoon, thanks for taking my call.
0:19.0	My mom and I are working through some relationship challenges but I'm hoping to get your feedback on.
0:25.6	Just a little bit of context, she's quite an emotional woman, so I'm typically pretty cautious about my choice of words and delivery,
0:35.6	but earlier this week we had a good honest conversation.
0:38.9	And I shared with her that the past couple of engagements that we've had have been a little bit unpleasant.
0:46.3	I gave a few examples to her and I had told her that in the past I may have just ignored some of her rude or cutting comments towards me, but that I wasn't going to allow to be treated or talked to you like that anymore.
1:01.0	Oh, sweetheart, I need you to back up up I need you to give me and you're good and
1:05.2	honest the minute you said that I wrote them down and went yikes. Good honest conversations
1:11.3	usually end up with stab wounds.
1:13.4	So I'd like to know these times you with your mother,
1:18.4	what is your, what we're criticism?
1:20.8	Tell me them now.
1:42.3	So the past two instances that we have had in these conversations because we have about five hours apart but the last conversation we had she get to shrim you rude with me and will You I you have to shush you've decided it's rude. I asked you to describe it. I'll decide if it's rude.
1:51.1	Sure. Understood.
1:53.0	Wow.
1:54.0	I'm laying and wait for you now.
1:57.0	The last conversation was she had said, you know, oh, I talked to you the day before and I had shared with you that a family member hadn't attended a party and I just simply said we you know mom we didn't talk yesterday and she goes absolutely we did and definitely raised her tone and I said no you need to stop talking are you need to stop talking are you that sick That was not rudeness. that you don't see what really happened.
2:43.0	That was not rudeness.
2:45.0	If your mother is having problems with memory,
2:50.0	then it requires your patience and compassion.
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