How Do I Talk To My Mom Like a Grownup?

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Before Francesca moves away from her home, she has to decide if she's going to obey her mom's request to exclude her aunt from the going away party or stand up for what she feels is right. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - 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 two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM.
0:10.0	Try and 11 Francesco. Welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Hi. What can I help? I'm 24 years old and I'm moving away from my family soon to another state.
0:25.0	And I'm going to have a going away party so I can take a bite at everyone and you know, leave on good terms with my family.
0:35.0	But over Easter, my mom and my aunt got into a really big blow up fight because my aunt who is a recovering addict.
0:47.0	She's been sober for 10 years sometimes watches my niece and my mom found out that she's been taking my niece to AA meetings.
0:59.0	And so my mom just completely blew up on her about it.
1:05.0	But I feel like it doesn't involve me because it's my sister's kid, not my kid. But my mom tried to drag me into it and she basically told me I needed to uninvite my aunt to the party, block her on everything.
1:20.0	And I just feel like it's not I don't want to leave my family with bad blood. So I just I don't really know what to do, but it seems like my mom's now really upset at me for not taking her side.
1:32.0	And it's just a sticky situation.
1:36.0	Do you want to handle this like a grown up or like your mother's kid?
1:44.0	I mean, I want to handle it like a grown up, you know, I'm asking you for a decision, not an explanation and ambivalent this and could be the other that I don't care about that.
2:00.0	I'm just asking you to make a decision because without that decision, I don't know how to help. I need the decision.
2:08.0	Like a grown up, I want to handle this like a grown up. Okay, then you say mom, I appreciate that you and she have a problem. This is my going away party and I'm inviting all of you.
2:20.0	And you can decide if you want to come or not, but if you come, you have to behave properly. That's how a grown up would handle it.
2:27.0	Okay, she did like she threatened to just not come if my aunt that's fine. That's fine. She wants to act like an adolescent. That's fine.
2:41.0	Okay, you're not her mother. You're not her mother.
2:47.0	I know.
2:50.0	I know again. I'm sorry. Yeah, well, you're going to your expectation was a little unreasonable, but I understand why you had it.
3:05.0	You should invite everybody and let the chips fall.
3:10.0	And when your mother says that I'm not coming, you say, well, I hope you change your mind. That's it. You just say, I hope you change your mind. It's going to be a nice party.
3:20.0	You're going to be a lot of other people there. You're not mad at.
3:25.0	Okay.
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