COTD Refresher: Alexa feels distant from her husband...

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Alexa no longer feels on the same page with her husband. Is there anything she can do to make their marriage better? 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	Time now for a refresher from my Dr Laura Call of the Day Archives and remember you
0:05.6	too can participate on my live radio program heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on
0:11.9	serious XM Triumph 111.
0:17.2	Alexa, welcome to the program.
0:19.7	Hi Dr Laura, how are you?
0:22.4	Good. I think my daughters will thank you for my having
0:25.9	listened to you all these years. Oh excellent happy to hear that. I would like to
0:31.3	know I guess I'll frame the question this way it's the other side of the
0:36.5	masculinity you know when there's such a guy that he comes my husband comes home from work and he's overdone.
0:45.0	He's taking care of a lot of things right now and he needs time to unwind.
0:50.0	And I would like to know a good way of interjecting myself if it were and saying I
1:01.2	miss you lately?
1:04.0	No, that's not.
1:05.0	That's no, that's not what you do when he first comes home.
1:08.0	When he first comes home, give him a hug and a kiss,
1:11.0	and a glass of wine or a beer, whichever is his taste, and point him toward the bathroom where there is a bathtub filled with nice hot water, maybe a few bubbles. Not too many. He's a guy, and have the radio on across the room so he doesn't
1:26.4	die because it falls in and electrocutes him.
1:28.8	To music he likes, classical, hard rock, whatever it is, country, and say in a half an hour or so, come on out.
1:40.8	And leave them alone. Okay.
1:44.0	Don't interject yourself.
1:47.0	Extricate yourself. Okay, yeah, I've been trying to be just quiet because he's under such a arrest right now and I'm missing him.
2:05.0	That's nice, but he has to unwind and a hot bath is one nice way to unwind or if he likes the shower better,
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