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The Dr. Laura Podcast

How Can I Help My Husband Break His Bad Habit?

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Evelyn isn't happy with her husband's bad habit of picking his nose and is desperate to get him to stop. 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 listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live

0:04.7

radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM

0:09.9

Triumph 111.

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Evelyn, welcome to the program.

0:14.0

Hi Dr. Laura, thank you for taking my call.

0:17.0

I thought you might say a sticky situation.

0:27.0

This is embarrassing to ask, but it really is affecting my relationship.

0:34.0

How can I get my husband to stop picking his nose. Hand the mittition.

0:38.0

Ma'am, I'm answering your question.

0:41.0

Carry those little containers of tissues.

0:45.0

And the second you see him doing it home in the car, anywhere, just hand it to him.

0:50.0

He's not even thinking about it.

0:52.0

It's like when people pick a pimple or they

0:56.4

constantly scratch or pull on their hair, they're not even thinking about it. But the way to make him think about it without hurting your

1:05.1

without hurting your marriage is to hand him a tissue and say here sweetie

1:08.2

this will hope. Okay I actually have done that and he's no I don't care the lies the nonsense I said each

1:18.3

and every time 24 hours a day sweet sweetly hand him a tissue.

1:25.0

That's like saying, I'm telling you to take tennis lessons and you're going,

1:30.0

I picked up a racket one time.

1:37.0

All right, all right, fair enough. I will give that a go.

1:39.0

Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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