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serious xm. Triumph 111. Richard welcome to the program. Hi Dr Laura, thank you for taking my

call. I really appreciate you and you've helped me and my wife Liz in our marriage

and bringing up our kids so far. So I just want to say thank you so much for that.

The purpose of my call is basically my mother, I'm a single child, my mother has been a drug abuser ever since I was a kid.

I didn't really know who my dad was.

You know, that type of childhood isn't very, you know, good for anybody right

uh... but you know i'm a good productive member of society

uh... i've been married ten years we got three

ugly kids together four six and eight my

predicament is every time my mom came over at the house where we visited with her.

My wife and her just obviously have different styles.

They're both type A, very strong personalities.

And I mean, I'm always gonna take my wife over my mom. There's no doubt about that and there's just little like belly aching that my mom always has about mute issues that she really doesn't have in my mind like any real

standing to say anything because of her parroting style right the way I was

brought up so I have not talked to my mom and over it's been a year now and our

three children four six and eight are asking when are we going to see grandma again? And I'm like, well, you know, kind of shared a little bit with him,

like, you know, when daddy was little,

grandma wasn't, you know, the nicest to him.

So, you know, so I tried to explain to them a little bit like, hey, you might not see them, but, you know, let's see.

I'm at a point now where I don't know what to tell them because, you know, my eight-year-old, my six-year-old my six-year-old and my soon-to-be

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