Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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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

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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 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.
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