Do One of the Following Things With Your Spouse for 15 Minutes Each Day

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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"Do One of the Following Things With Your Spouse for 15 Minutes Each Day" - Listen to my Morning Monologue: I’m sharing my take on pressing issues, enlightening research on human behavior, answering questions I get by email, and my favorite, most instructive interactions with callers. Everything you’ll hear is designed to help you become a better spouse, parent, family member, co-worker, friend, and human being. It’s the free therapy you need! Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:18.5	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on serious xm trium and connect with me
0:25.2	24 seven at dr laura dot com let me explain what this program is about i've noticed lately that a lot of
0:32.7	the calls and a lot of the emails are my parents parents have dementia, my kid is on drugs,
0:40.0	my adult kid, what do I do?
0:41.6	I think you all know the answers to those questions.
0:49.2	What I'm here for is to help you
0:50.6	with what's going on in your own head.
0:55.3	If you wanna know what to do with parents who have dementia,
0:58.2	talk to your physicians, the doctor's in charge,
1:02.7	a licensed clinical social worker,
1:05.1	they'll help you with whatever public services there are and so forth.
1:10.8	It's not something I can really help you with.
1:14.1	And if you've got an adult kid on drugs and you're letting him or her live in your house,
1:18.6	you already know the answer to that.
1:22.5	But in particular, people spend much too much time on their feelings and not common sense.
1:33.1	And if common sense and your feelings butt up against each other, feelings usually win. And then you
1:40.2	wonder why your life is a mess. Sometimes you just have to deal with crappy feelings in order to do a reasonable thing.
1:49.0	Think about that.
1:50.4	Sometimes you just have to live with crappy feelings for decades, for the rest of your life, maybe.
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