COTD Refresher: How can Emma help her siblings?

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🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Emma has escaped the clutches of her emotionally abusive mother, but her siblings, who still live at home, have not. Is there anything Emma can do for them? 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.
0:04.6	Remember you can hear my live radio program weekdays, 2 to 5 p.m.
0:09.9	Eastern time on Serious XM Triumph 2011.
0:15.0	Emma, welcome to the program.
0:18.0	Hello, thank you from Nion.
0:21.0	You're welcome.
0:22.0	What can I help you with? So thank you for putting me on hold because it is a whole lot and but well let's dive into it. One of the things you said is I'm a new Christian so I need to know what that means to you.
0:40.0	To me, I just found, you know, the love that I wasn't always given as a child and, I'm, I'm sorry and so it just it's a whole new it's the security it's
1:00.9	just it's just wonderful it is not of this world and it's just wonderful. It is not of this world and it's just really helps me a lot. But with that, you know, it is an intense life-changing event and it has to I've had to you know ask a lot of the
1:17.1	relationships I'm in it's whether or not they breathe life or they breathe death and
1:27.9	sadly I've come to the realization that my relationship with my mom or really lack of relationship it hurts me every day.
1:33.2	And I, you know, I dive into scripture a lot
1:36.1	and I have a wonderful boyfriend who's gonna be,
1:40.4	I know he's gonna be my fiance soon,
1:42.1	but he deserves so much more than you know me coming to
1:47.4	him with these issues and so I just I need to know if it's okay to you know distance myself from my mom and then, you know, come back to her later because when I see my mom and my mom is just really quick.
2:09.4	My mom was married to my father.
2:12.0	They're still married to my father, but throughout my life,
2:14.9	I've never really thought about her being married.
2:17.4	She's a truck driver, and she, you know,
2:21.1	skews these terrible things about him, you know, that, oh, your father stays
2:25.0	away because he doesn't love you, or all of these just terrible things.
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