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The Dr. Laura Podcast

How Could My Mother Let That Happen?

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Anne's dreams have been making her think about how her mother did not protect her when she needed her the most. Now the memories are driving her crazy. 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 radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.

0:11.0

And welcome to the program.

0:14.0

Hi.

0:15.0

Hi.

0:16.0

How can I help you?

0:18.0

Well, I talked to you last week about my situation and you asked me to think about my mother's role in

0:30.5

the abuse that I suffered as a child and my siblings suffered from your father.

0:37.0

Yes.

0:38.0

Yeah. Yeah.

0:40.0

And I've been thinking, I thought about that like most well all weekend and I think that's a difficult

0:50.5

thing for me because my mom was so cold and I learned early on that she wasn't going to.

1:04.0

I'm sorry I didn't understand or hear correctly what you said.

1:08.0

Your mom is so what?

1:11.0

He's just really cold, emotionless person.

1:15.0

And I'm under Nleon that she wasn't going to

1:21.0

save me or help me or intervene.

1:28.0

And so she and I never really bonded.

1:32.2

So in many ways, she became a non-entity to me.

1:35.0

We still don't have a close relationship.

1:41.0

Everything we've ever kind of discussed with cursory. Do you remember what context I asked you to think about it in terms of your anger sort of tilted toward your dad when your mom never protected you.

2:05.0

Do you remember that?

2:07.0

Okay, that's kind of what I was wanting you to think about.

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