Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

Inspiration, Parenthood By Proxy, Divorce, Dr Laura Schlessinger, Stay-at-home Moms, Proper Care And Feeding Of Husbands, Grandparents, Confrontation, Courage, Dating, Marriage, Love, Strength, Goals, Workplace, God, Fitness, Dr Laura, Health, Friendship, Exercise, Healing, In-laws, Do The Right Thing, Surviving A Shark Attack On Land, Power, Responsibility, Ultimate Guide To Marriage, Grief, Social Media, Parenting, Stop Whining Start Living, Couples, Society & Culture, Ethics, Health & Well-being, Marriage 101, Single Parenting, Love & Life, Shacking Up, Snowflakes, Family, Workout, Lesbian, Podcast, Feuds, Quote, Messing Up, Life, Childhood, Triumph, Emotions, Procrastination, Siriusxm, Sex, Gay, Kids, Mental Health, Wisdom, Well-being, Co-parenting, Stay-at-home Dads, Coping, Woman Power, Conscience, Counseling, The Ten Commandments, Sexuality, Stress, Kids & Family, Feelings, Health & Fitness, Relationships

4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Natalie feels like a failure after leaving her boyfriend of 7 years. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	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.
0:11.5	Natalie, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. How are you? Good. How can I help you, Natalie? I'm so nervous right now. I've been listening to you for a while. My mom, actually, she would always listen to you when I would listen to the background in the car.
0:28.8	Thank you.
0:29.8	So I had a boyfriend for about seven years, and I made a of doing wifely duties for a boyfriend.
0:39.8	And he's been kind of, I guess, verbally abusive, stuff like that. And I decided to leave on
0:47.7	Monday. I just packed my stuff and left. And I'm actually, I'm following my mom right now to
0:52.9	Daytona just to start over.
0:56.2	And I guess my question is I still kind of feel a little guilty, I guess,
1:03.2	feeling like kind of a failure for leaving.
1:07.0	Okay, explain what guilty means here.
1:10.7	I don't know what guilty means.
1:12.7	Not nice to you, and you feel guilty for what?
1:17.7	I miss that part.
1:19.9	So it's kind of stupid, but I would do laundry for them and stuff like that.
1:27.2	No, I don and stuff like that.
1:29.7	No, I don't care about that.
1:35.6	I'm asking you, he was not nice to you, didn't appreciate you, wasn't kind to you, I got that part.
1:37.8	What do you feel guilty about?
1:42.5	What did you do that was wrong or bad that you should feel guilty for?
1:45.2	Just answer that, nothing else.
1:46.5	Leaving?
1:48.8	I'm sorry.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.