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Hi there, Dr. Laura, thank you so much for taking my call.

You're welcome.

What's happening?

I'm dealing with a difficult situation with my husband. He's being really difficult and we have a two-year-old son. We've been married for six years, been together for about nine years. the difficulty started when we had a child.

He's very controlling and he's just gotten more controlling since we had the child.

You want to tell me what controlling when you have a child means because I have no idea.

During the first year he would control, he tried to control like when he slept and how much sleep he got and how much formula I gave him.

I was breastfeeding but he wanted to control exactly how much, formula he got and he had a tongue tie and he refused to acknowledge that he had a tongue tie didn't want me to get it fixed.

Eventually I did that nearly ended the marriage because he just didn't buy into it.

It eventually helped a lot of our problems with breastfeeding but eventually he came

around on that. He was also yelling, curse of the baby when the baby wouldn't fall

asleep. It left me feeling very scared. And so we got through that somehow and we dealt with that.

After about six or so months it kind of stopped and he got a little bit more

laid back. We did go to counseling. I didn't think it helped very much, but we did. He's been

pretty great for a little more than a year since then but since our son

turned to he seems to think that I was going to stop breastfeeding him and I

planned to continue into toddlerhood and he got extremely angry at that and wants me to stop.

So I found myself, he feels that I'm not compromising with him by refusing to stop.

And I feel like he's just,

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