Do I Put My Son or Myself First?

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Simone’s therapist recommends prioritizing her health amid cancer treatment, but does that mean abandoning her 15-year-old son for the fifth time? 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	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on
0:08.9	serious xm. Triumph 111.
0:11.1	Simone, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi Dr Laura, thank you for taking my call.
0:17.0	Thank you.
0:18.0	What can I help you with?
0:20.0	I'm calling today because I'm a nurse. I was a pandemic and I found that I had cancer during that time and I had to go on leave and I had to moving away from my husband and my son because the marriage has been strained for a long time.
0:42.0	Well, I stayed back up. the marriage has been strained for a long time.
0:43.0	Well, I stayed back up north for about a year,
0:46.4	and then I moved back down south because my son asked me to.
0:51.2	Worked for a year, and my doctor put me back out again because it's immune
0:54.4	system thing I kept picking up different stuff from the hospital and I got my
1:00.1	own place and I had to leave out of there because I couldn't go back to work and I ended up
1:04.9	back with the husband and the child and I wanted to leave for good and go back home.
1:11.6	There is a history of child abuse and a lot of abuse when I was younger and
1:16.7	I'm in therapy now and so my therapist was saying you know you need to put your
1:22.3	self first and I know my son needs me but
1:25.5	and also my grandmother that sounds south but it's just so much and I'm not able to
1:31.7	focus on myself.
1:37.0	I think you're going to have plenty of regrets later on to look back on and get therapy for
1:42.0	if you abandon your 15 year old.
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