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The Dr. Laura Podcast

#40 - Top 40 Countdown '23: My Roommate is a Slob!

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

How should Micayla deal with her roommate who is a total slob? 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

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0:06.8

heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 1111.

0:12.4

Ah Michaela, welcome to the program. on Sirius XM Triumph 1111.

0:13.0

Michaela, welcome to the program.

0:15.0

Hi Dr. Laura, it's a pleasure to be speaking with you.

0:18.0

Thank you.

0:20.0

What's happening?

0:21.0

I was hoping to get some advice from you about setting proper boundaries

0:26.2

and compromising about criminal standards with my roommate and best friends.

0:31.6

Okay. I have the answer already. Okay. Unless both of you are mutually

0:39.2

considerate and not self-centered, there will be no common ground.

0:45.0

No matter what you call her, your best friend, your enemy, doesn't matter.

0:49.0

Unless you are totally the same in consideration for the other person and not self-centered there is no

0:56.7

middle ground that I know of.

1:10.4

Fair enough. I feel like I am trying to be really considerate. It doesn't matter what you're... It doesn't matter. If she's not doing the same, it's wasted effort. Did you both sign a lease?

1:20.0

Yes, we did. We've been living together six months.

1:25.0

When is the lease up?

1:27.0

Okay, well in six months you might have...

1:30.0

Sorry. In six months you might have to make a change

1:33.4

yeah um is there any way that I can

1:37.8

uh... just kind of cope with

1:40.2

uh... how it is in the meantime as i'm not trying to break the lease but if it's something that I can't change it's just really hard to put up with living in living in a mess and coming home every day and doing all of the cleaning.

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