Even Cancer Can't Make My Husband More Affectionate

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Theresa's husband of 50 years has never been very affectionate, but she needs to feel his love more than ever as she's dying of brain cancer. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 1111.
0:12.4	Theresa. Welcome to the program. on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:12.6	Theresa.
0:13.6	Welcome to the program.
0:15.6	Hello.
0:16.6	Hi.
0:18.6	What can I help you with?
0:21.1	Okay, I'm a 66 year old woman.
0:24.0	Been married to my husband for 50 years, seven children, and I recent, about a year ago we've diagnosed with brain cancer.
0:35.0	Unfortunately, they give me a year to two to live.
0:38.0	And my husband seems to be doing very well,
0:40.0	and they put me on a new medicine,
0:42.0	and I seem to do doing a little better but I cannot get
0:46.3	perfection from my husband I tell him please sit down put your arm around me just put your
0:51.4	arms around me just tell it's going to be okay even though it may not, you
0:54.7	know, just help me and I just can't seem to come across to him. So, I was wondering what you might suggest.
1:02.1	Unless he's deaf deaf he's heard you
1:04.0	Yes.
1:05.0	How was he in comforting you before you were ill?
1:11.0	Not very good.
1:12.0	He's not not a very empathetic person.
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