How Do I Move Past the Anger I Now Feel Towards My Mother?

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Kayla never paid much attention to growing up without a mother. Now that she is a mother, she realizes her anger toward her own mom. 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 serious
0:09.5	XM Triumph 111. Kayla, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi Dr. Laura, I'm actually very happy to be speaking with you.
0:18.0	I've had something on my mind for a couple months now and I thought today's the day I'm going to pull the trigger and move forward somehow.
0:26.6	And I look at you as a friend that gives really good advice so I think this is going to be
0:37.0	just really good for me. I'm a little emotional I have to tell you I had a miscarriage a few months ago and I came across your deep dive about miscarriages and
0:46.0	it was just exactly what I needed.
0:50.9	So this call, it's not about that experience but I'm emotional.
0:55.0	Yes. And I'm happy to say I'm pregnant again.
0:58.0	So your your podcast was just so helpful. It helped me be optimistic about moving forward and trying
1:08.5	again and being open to whatever happens. The next thing I want to see is I'm home right now with two kids
1:14.9	that are not feeling too good. So they're home from school and I've got three puppies. So God forbid
1:20.8	someone rings the doorbell. It will be a tornado in here. So, but I'll get on with why I called you. So a little bit of my story. I was raised by my father. My mom left. Me and my brother, when I was four years old and my brother was five years old.
1:38.0	Throughout my life, my friends, who all have married parents.
1:43.4	They always said, how can you not be mad at your mom?
1:45.8	How can you not be mad at your mother for what she did?
1:48.0	I said, I love my mom.
1:49.4	You know, my whole life, I thought, I love my mom, I feel bad for her because she was going through you
1:55.2	know mental health issues and pain and you know she just had no choice she had to
1:59.6	leave because she couldn't handle us and she couldn't handle life. And now I'm 39, my kids are four and six.
2:08.6	And I drop them off at school and I pick them up and I take them to all their activities and I cook with them and I go for
2:14.2	walks with them and I see all these things that I never had and I'm furious and I'm mad and I'm sad and I now understand why my friends would say how
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