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Bad Childhood, Good Life Week: Should I Minimize The Relationship With My Mom?

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🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Bad Childhood, Good Life Week: Should I Minimize The Relationship With My Mom? - Josie’s therapist has suggested the choice is hers to have a relationship with her mother or not. She’s considering a minimal one but is unsure how to “navigate the waters” doing so. - Dr. Laura: "Acceptance means you stop fighting the reality." - Are you unable to accept the realities in your life? Email me your thoughts at: drlaura@drlaura.com | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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So Z, welcome to the program. Hi, how are you? Hi. What can I do for you? So I had called you

0:58.4

about six, seven months ago. And what did we talk about? We talked about my mom throwing a fit,

1:07.6

having to leave early or to leave on time. My family and I, my husband and two kids went to visit

1:14.4

her. She threw a pretty big fit about leaving and you told me to just move on. So I was really

1:22.7

having a hard time understanding what I was thinking. Well, I didn't suggest you move on because

1:26.6

she had that one fit. There was a pattern. No, there was definitely a pattern. Yes, you are correct.

1:31.8

Because I had called you before. I'm not nutty enough to have said what you could get. Go ahead.

1:36.4

Yes. So I got into some therapy to kind of help me figure out like what exactly

1:41.6

it would look like for me to move on and how to basically just be my own person. I think that

1:50.0

it wasn't, I just was always a little girl afraid of making her mom mad and I felt like I just

1:56.4

needed to grow up. So it's been seven months. I've been in therapy. But not maybe like once or twice

2:03.6

a month, if that. And my therapist explained that for him, like when they see their in-laws,

2:10.2

they visit, they go to dinner, they don't stay in the same house. They kind of just have a low

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