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Jenna, welcome to the program.

Hi, Dr. Laura, thank you for taking my call.

You're welcome.

What can I help you?

Yes, I'm 55, my husband's 58. We've been married for 26 years. We got married later in life, you know, right around 30, he was 32 and we I was in our rigorous medical program

we dated two years apart two years together got, and immediately started having children.

So how many kids do you have and how old are they?

Right now, they are 20, 23, and 25.

We have been...

Okay, they're all grown-ups.

Yes, they're grown-ups.

So we immediately started having children.

So we didn't exactly have, you know, the traditional dating, you know, because we were

both starting careers and I was in school. What I learned

after you know we got married is that we have incredibly different styles of managing stress.

Mind being growing up in a family where you sit down and discuss things and his family you pretty much had an explosion,

went to your room, there was never any discussion afterwards.

And I feel like he probably grew up walking on eggshells with a mother who didn't communicate very well.

And he spent a lot of time in his room

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