Having a Heart-to-Heart with a Wayward Dad

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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14-year-old Eva is angry that her father is putting his love life above his own children and wants to tell him so. 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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0:23.5	Mom and Ava, welcome to the program.
0:27.9	Hello, Dr. Laura.
0:29.5	Hi.
0:31.1	Hi, Ava. How old are you?
0:34.2	I'm 14.
0:36.2	Now, I read your email that you sent. I read it this morning. Did you write that? Did somebody write it for you?
0:45.4	No, I wrote it.
0:47.4	Okay. It was very mature.
0:50.9	Thank you.
0:51.7	So basically, since I know what we're going to talk about, but we're on radio, so I would
0:57.1	appreciate if you would tell me your situation, and then I'll do my best to help you.
1:04.0	Okay.
1:06.0	So I explained in the email what was the situation.
1:13.0	Basically, my parents separated, and we had to relocate with my mom and younger sister in Cambridge while my dad had to stay back home in Qatar.
1:25.1	And during the summer, during our relocation, I discovered that he is living with another woman.
1:34.9	And I confronted him about it without my mom knowing.
1:40.2	And it did not go well.
1:44.5	Basically, he lied about it since she was a roommate, and he said a lot of, like, said a lot of bullshit, basically, and his family went along with it.
2:04.0	And I felt really bad, and we had lots of conversations about it, and it just didn't go well.
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