How Can Grandma Help?

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Virginia's kids have made a mess of their lives, and she worries that they are hurting her grandchildren. 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 downloading my call of the day podcast.
0:03.5	You too can participate in my live radio program heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph 111.
0:12.9	Ginio, welcome to the program.
0:16.2	Thank you.
0:18.3	How can I help?
0:19.4	I have a question.
0:29.6	Our son's wife, and they've been married for about eight years and they have two kids, and my daughter who was engaged and had a little baby, my daughter's fiance and my son's wife were having an affair.
0:42.3	What? What and what? How do we fix our family? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
0:51.8	And how did everybody, who how did everybody explain themselves when they were, quote, caught?
1:02.2	My daughter-in-law claimed she was manipulated.
1:06.9	My daughter's fiance, he had no words.
1:11.2	He basically abandoned our daughter and her baby.
1:17.2	So we're just trying to figure out how we help our kids.
1:21.9	We're like trying to balance two lives.
1:24.4	My son chose to forgive his wife, but she's still treating him horribly,
1:30.1	and we have suspicion she's still seeing my daughter's ex-siance. So do we stick our nose?
1:37.6	In situations like this, the best and most perfect advice is to never discuss this again with anybody, including me,
1:47.2	and spend all your time being a grandmother, not a mother.
1:53.5	Okay.
1:55.4	I don't want you discussing this, worrying about it.
1:59.7	Well, if you want to worry, I guess you can.
2:01.5	It just has no power, so it's a waste of time and energy.
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