COTD Refresher: My Daughter Is Too Dependent on Me

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Cori shares one of her most embarrassing experiences and how it turned out to help her in ways she did not expect. 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.
0:17.0	Michael, welcome to the program.
0:20.0	Hi.
0:22.0	Hi. I was calling. Yes, I was calling because I had a question about my the right balance of time with my daughter. She was 26 and
0:39.9	married and I get a lot of text messages daily from her and phone calls and usually not
0:50.4	why what's what's wrong with your daughter? I think she's kind of needy right now.
1:00.0	Stuff going on with her husband and you know family stuff there.
1:07.0	How does she resolve the stuff with her husband by texting and calling you frequently during the day.
1:14.0	She doesn't.
1:15.0	She doesn't resolve anything.
1:18.0	And it just...
1:19.0	Well then, maybe...
1:20.0	Responding to all of that is not the best thing for her.
1:25.0	If you're not helping her, then you're hurting her.
1:28.0	Because instead of venting and having you poor baby her, she could go to a counselor or minister and deal with whatever the problems are.
1:37.0	She, I was trying to figure out if I had any obligation to help her at all in any way.
1:49.0	Yes, you help her by telling her I can't help you by talking to you so many times in a day you've got to get help
1:55.5	you've got to get professional help if she broke her leg would you try to splint it
2:01.3	No yes or no why because you don't know what you're doing. Right. Well right now you don't know what you're doing. So it's no different if her leg is fractured or her psyche is fractured, her marriage is fractured.
2:15.0	She needs professional help.
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