Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through

Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11. Stephanie, welcome to the program.

Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you so much for taking my call. Truly, it's actually a huge honor to speak with you.

I've been following you and using you as my, you know, guide in life for since before 2020,

way before 2020.

It's been many years, so thank you.

So I wanted, sorry, I'm a little nervous.

I wanted it to get narrative advice from you.

I definitely have followed and respected every view that you have on how to be a parent,

how to be a wife, how to go about your life.

And I know that you can definitely maybe humble me or give me a little

kick in the butt that I might need. So back story, my husband and I, we met in 2017.

We've been together since and we are coming up on our third anniversary.

We have a very ugly daughter.

She is almost nine months now.

And just the light of our life, just the joy,

the joy of everything.

I think right now, I know right now where my problem and my dilemmas have been lying is I am struggling personally with an imbalance in the tasks and then just the everyday responsibilities that kind of come with being a mom and taking care of a home and also, you know, taking care of my husband and making him happy.

I, um, my issue from my perspective is that I feel that I have just been, I've become what is the term, the primary parent, meaning that I'm the one that

thinks, hey, it's time to get ready for bed. So I trigger the routine or, hey, it's bath

night tonight or, hey, I got to make her food. Like, I'm the one that kind of does those

extra things. I know how she's getting rid and how. Well, yeah, I under, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Honey, this week or in general,

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