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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Mary wishes her siblings cared about getting their family together as much as she does. 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.
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.
0:11.4	Mary, welcome to the program.
0:13.7	Hi there. I'm excited to talk to you.
0:16.3	So I tend to get upset with my siblings.
0:21.9	I don't want to be upset, but the things that I feel, I feel hurt by them.
0:29.2	And yet, I'm just, I don't even want to feel that way.
0:34.1	And so I just wanted to know what you thought I might be able to do.
0:39.1	I don't know what the hell you're feeling so hurt about.
0:42.3	What are you so heard about?
0:45.0	Okay, so one example I'd given to the person who screens you is
0:49.2	every year I plan a birthday for them.
0:52.1	It's just to go out to eat.
0:56.9	One year they actually planned one of the birthdays and just said, well, that's okay. We know you can't make it, but we're just going to do it
1:01.2	at this time. So they totally didn't include me, but it's normally me planning them. So there's
1:08.0	a birthday in April, in May and June, and then my birthday comes along in July, and there's nothing.
1:12.6	And I have said something to them, you know, do you realize every year we have birthdays and you just kind of forget mine?
1:25.6	And then one year they remembered it.
1:28.3	Um, but then this past year, my sister did say, um, you know, for your birthday, what are you thinking?
1:38.3	And I just said, well, I'm real busy this week, but then it was kind of left at that and then just nothing was done.
1:43.3	And so this morning, they want to plan Christmas for the family.
1:48.0	And so there's a text thread and they're all figuring when to have Christmas.
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