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The Dr. Laura Podcast

#33 - Top 40 Countdown '23: Am I Being Selfish?

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Is it wrong of Derek to ask his wife, who is 54 and has children from a previous relationship, to give him children of his own? 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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Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program

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heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.

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Derek, welcome to the program.

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Thank you for having me.

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I appreciate you.

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And, uh...

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You're welcome.

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Ever since I started listening to your show, like you hit the nooks and crannies of the brain.

0:29.6

And so I figured, hey, why not try you where I can kind of get some advice.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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So basically my wife and I, we've been together for about 12 years now, and that

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theory, that same theory that you have on, you know, that quality of a person of how many years it should take or you know it should be before

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sexual intimacy actually should start. So I always thought of that as a good and

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proven theory that it actually works.

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And so basically from, you know, work experience, they say if you want to use someone as a reference,

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it has to be at least three years that you know that versus and so I figured that

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out you good point see that's a good point you know and I always thought I thought

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of it that way and since I was together with my wife now, we've been together for 12 years, but we've been married for about three years.

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And we have we have although we have a age gap

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I don't think that even matters as far as when you know two people love each other?

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Yeah I know that love conquers all. Okay so question how old is she and how old are you? I'm 35 she's 54.

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