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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Susan grew up in an abusive home and wonders if therapy can help her get more comfortable with showing affection to her own children. 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.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.3	Susan, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Yes, hello.
0:14.6	Thank you, Dr. Law for taking my call.
0:17.2	You're welcome.
0:17.7	My question is, my question is, should I go to therapy again at the request of my husband?
0:25.7	What happened to the first time? What happened to the first time?
0:29.8	Well, I thought I was doing okay. What happened is there's something I did not disclose to my husband.
0:36.4	He actually, I came from my mother who was very, she was bipolar.
0:42.3	She was bipolar.
0:43.3	And she had bipolar disorder, I'm sorry, I'm nervous.
0:46.3	And so she had a lot of really horrible behaviors toward me.
0:50.3	And part of her behaviors were sexual.
0:52.3	Like when I was about the age of 16, I was bending over at the seat, washing my hair,
0:58.5	and my mother stood behind me and started, like, rolling her pelvis into my bottom in a sexual manner.
1:05.4	She would do stuff like that.
1:08.0	And she was hypersexual at times.
1:18.6	So I did go to counseling at the age of 29 before we got married to deal with some of the experience I had with her. And like my husband said, he was asking, you know, why don't you hug the children more?
1:25.6	And so I thought about it.
1:27.5	And I told them, I never showed him incidents like that.
1:31.8	I guess I was just ashamed of it.
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