Choosing Marriage Over Mama

Dr. Laura Call of the Day

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Seth's demanding and overbearing mother could be the death of his marriage if he doesn't make a change. 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 listening to my call of the day podcast.
0:02.4	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	Yes.
0:12.1	Welcome to the program.
0:14.1	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:15.2	How are you today?
0:16.6	Good.
0:17.1	Thank you.
0:17.8	What's up?
0:19.2	Well, I'm calling for some advice on how to set boundaries with my mother as an adult.
0:24.7	No, we don't. Is your mother a cattle? Is she a cow?
0:31.4	If she's not a cow, then boundaries are irrelevant. So start all over again. Hi, Seth. All right. All right. I'm calling because I feel like
0:43.6	my mother has smothered me my whole life and I feel suffocated by her. And now I'm married and I don't have
0:51.1	the emotional bandwidth to put up with, you know, how she's feeling all the time and sort of take care of her anymore.
0:59.6	And whenever I try to, well, what I would say, set a boundary in the past, she's acted like I'm hurting her deeply.
1:08.1	Sir.
1:09.6	Boundaries are bullshit, okay?
1:12.5	Nobody listens to anybody's boundaries.
1:14.6	Only cattle do.
1:16.3	The only way somebody can stop having a negative impact on your life is if you stop them.
1:23.0	And you stop them by consequences.
1:25.8	And sometimes the overwhelming nature of what they do is so egregious
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