Carlie Cares for Everyone, But Who's Caring for Carlie?

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Carlie's life has started to fall apart ever since she began taking care of her elderly mother. Searching for advice? 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 downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph 111. Carly, welcome to the program.
0:16.2	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call. I really value your wisdom and I'm hoping you can help me in the situation.
0:23.6	I am 46. My husband's 51 and my mother's 81. We recently moved out of our home to move into my mother's home to be caregivers.
0:36.6	My brother, who is 57, was living there for 11 years,
0:42.0	and he decided to move out to live with his girlfriend. Plus, he wasn't kind to my mom. He was
0:48.9	kind of a bully. So when my husband and I were living in our house, I would just come and visit my mom
0:54.1	once we'd take her shopping.
0:55.9	That was okay. Since we've moved into the home, my mother, I didn't realize, doesn't have hobbies.
1:02.6	She wants to go everywhere my husband and I go. She thinks it's going to be the three musketeers.
1:07.6	So I ended up getting a caregiver because I couldn't take it. I felt like my work
1:11.5	productivity declined. I was waking up in tears. I just couldn't take it anymore. The caregivers
1:18.7	have come and she just told me she didn't like one of the caregivers today because she felt
1:23.2	like she wasn't clean. I don't know what that meant. So she told her she could leave two hours early.
1:29.3	Yesterday, the caregiver a couple days ago, she didn't want to walk the dog with her
1:33.5	because she didn't like her hair.
1:35.0	She did wear a bonnet, and I did let them know for her not to come that way.
1:38.4	So my question is, and I told my husband, I would like us, we still have the other house.
1:44.1	I was like, I would like us we still have the other house I was like I want to
1:45.2	move back I don't want to sell the house anymore because I can't between now and dead I don't
1:49.6	want to live like this what can I do and he says we can't move back mom doesn't have
1:55.0	anyone to take care of her we're going to have to take care of her I just this is
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