Bill's 2nd Marriage Was a Big Mistake

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🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Bill's wife is damaging their marriage by insisting on supporting her adult son. Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:23.4	Bill, welcome to the program.
0:25.5	My question for you is my wife and I had been previously married.
0:32.3	We got together 10 years ago, divorced, got, I mean, divorced from our original spouses, met 10 years ago, got married a divorce from our original spouses met 10 years ago got
0:40.3	married a year and a half ago she has two children one is 28 is a son moved
0:46.7	out of state and has been totally financially irresponsible my wife took some of her inheritance and gave that to him, and then I realized...
1:00.2	If it weren't incredibly rude, I would laugh my brains out at you right now for marrying her.
1:12.6	Yeah.
1:14.5	That's the feeling I have.
1:16.5	Yes, you made a horrible mistake.
1:21.2	He's not going to be tamed.
1:23.1	She's not going to do the good parent thing.
1:25.6	You're not going to have any say.
1:29.0	Exactly. You're not going to have any say. Exactly.
1:30.1	You are her husband, nothing else.
1:34.8	You're not his dad.
1:36.2	Don't even use the word stepdad.
1:38.2	Don't even go there.
1:41.4	You have no dad status at all.
1:44.4	He's an adult.
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