Dating is a Time of Discernment

Dr. Laura Call of the Day

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

If Noah sits back and watches how his girlfriend handles her family problems, he'll get some good insight into what kind of wife she will be. 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.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.3	Noah, welcome to the program.
0:13.4	Hi, Dr. Laura. How you doing?
0:15.0	Great. How can I help today?
0:17.2	Good. So a little backstory. I'm having issues with my girlfriend's mother. I've been dating my girlfriend for about three years. And right at the beginning of us dating, her mom and her dad got divorced. And she's been putting a lot of her mother's distrust in men back on my girlfriend.
0:44.8	And it's difficult for me to try to help her heal and to try to help her get some faith in men again.
0:52.4	I'm sorry.
0:53.4	Noah? Yes. I'm sorry. Noah?
0:55.1	Yes.
0:56.7	I didn't understand who you were referencing.
1:01.4	You're trying to fix your girlfriend's mother?
1:04.5	I'm trying to fix my girlfriend's healing process from her parents' divorce.
1:10.4	Oh, you can't do that.
1:13.4	Your job is to see if she does a good enough job, your girlfriend, in becoming a quality
1:19.2	wife in the future.
1:21.6	Yes.
1:22.2	So she may have to go into therapy, but you can't fix this.
1:25.3	You can't fix your girlfriend.
1:27.0	You can't fix your mother. You can't fix your mother.
1:29.2	Your job is to wait and make a determination as to whether or not she will become in a place
1:36.4	that you would like to marry her and that she has a good attitude about life, love, marriage, intimacy,
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