Balancing Marriage With Motherhood

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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New mom Stephanie has not yet figured out how to be a sweet, adorable wife while juggling the demands of her baby girl. 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 radio program Monday through
0:06.3	Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11. Stephanie, welcome to the program.
0:14.9	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you so much for taking my call. Truly, it's actually a huge honor to speak with you.
0:23.3	I've been following you and using you as my, you know, guide in life for since before 2020,
0:31.1	way before 2020.
0:32.1	It's been many years, so thank you.
0:36.9	So I wanted, sorry, I'm a little nervous.
0:40.0	I wanted it to get narrative advice from you.
0:44.3	I definitely have followed and respected every view that you have on how to be a parent,
0:52.2	how to be a wife, how to go about your life.
0:56.0	And I know that you can definitely maybe humble me or give me a little
1:00.0	kick in the butt that I might need. So back story, my husband and I, we met in 2017.
1:08.0	We've been together since and we are coming up on our third anniversary.
1:14.8	We have a very ugly daughter.
1:17.3	She is almost nine months now.
1:20.7	And just the light of our life, just the joy,
1:23.7	the joy of everything.
1:25.6	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.
1:49.0	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
2:02.3	thinks, hey, it's time to get ready for bed. So I trigger the routine or, hey, it's bath
2:08.5	night tonight or, hey, I got to make her food. Like, I'm the one that kind of does those
2:12.5	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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