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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Dr. Laura suggests Janet should examine the family dynamics and marital problems that have impacted her 18-year-old daughter’s eating disorder. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM
0:09.9	Triumph 111.
0:11.1	Get it. Welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi Dr Laura, thanks for taking my call.
0:17.0	Thank you.
0:18.0	I'm calling about my husband and I are married with four children and we have two younger daughters and then our third daughter is 18.
0:27.7	She's a senior in high school and she's had an eating disorder for two years now.
0:35.6	And we have made multiple attempts of getting her help and she has refused. Most recently she told me I told me she was ready to go into treatment.
0:46.4	So I pulled her out of her private school and I got her online and then she
0:51.9	attempt we took her to go into treatment and online and then she
1:01.6	we took her to go into treatment and then she refused and she said well I'm 18 so I can refuse and so she she refused and came back home and I I think at this point, my husband and I
1:06.1	are kind of up to here with her behaviors
1:11.0	and everything that I feel that she's getting away with and if I say no she goes to
1:15.7	that and you know gets what she wants and you know she demands.
1:19.7	I'm sorry so you have a marital problem is at the core of this then?
1:26.0	Possibly yes. What is funny about this?
1:44.6	It's not. I'm sorry. I just, I last one, I'm nervous. I apologize.
1:48.4	If you and your husband are not on, as they say, the same page,
1:54.0	dealing with something this serious,
1:56.0	then you two are the problem, not her.
1:59.0	This is her reaction to her family life.
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