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Lauren, welcome to the program.

Hi Dr. Laura. I've looked through to your show since I was three and now I have my own three

months old baby and we listened to you together. So it's a full circle. That's wild. Wow.

What can I do for you? I'm 27 and my husband is 29 and we've been married for a year and a half.

And I'm calling because I cut my dad off the week that my son was born.

And I feel myself getting a little weaker about that and I wanted to talk to you for some encouragement.

Sometimes I'll listen to the call of the day podcast and I'll relisten to the ones where you have

callers who have bad parents and you say things like, you know, if it doesn't help you be a

better wife or mother, then don't call. And I played you telling someone to block their parent when

I blocked my parent, but I could just really use your self-selling me.

Well, here's the problem. Here's the problem. Because we do the right thing, doesn't mean it makes

us feel good. Yeah. So it's not that you're getting weak. It's that you're slipping back into hoping

when you know that's hopeless. Yeah. But doing the right thing doesn't always feel good. Every

every woman wants to be daddy's princess. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. You're not getting weak. You're

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