I Became the Mom My Mother Never Was

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Amy wants to free herself from the anger she feels for having to be a surrogate mother to her brother throughout her whole life. 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
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on
0:08.9	serious xm. Triumph 111. Amy, welcome to the program. Hello Dr. Moore. Hi. Hi, I'm
0:17.8	super nervous. I'm a long-time listener but it's my first time to call.
0:25.0	So.
0:29.0	What can I help you with?
0:31.0	Well, I'm hoping that you can help me figure out how to deal with feeling guilt where my brother is concerned.
0:45.0	He is...
0:47.0	So which parent are you filling in for to take care of your errant brother?
0:52.0	Yeah. care of your errant brother? Yeah, probably my mom.
0:57.0	Okay, then listen to me very carefully.
1:00.0	Parents who are irresponsible and cannot be counted on or who are abusive or
1:06.1	absent or negligent or overbearing I could go through the list of it so that a child has to take responsibility for the
1:16.8	parent or the parent surrogate, the parent child often feel misplaced guilt instead of the rage they should.
1:27.0	Proper therapy for you would be to get you to how angry you are because that would dismiss the inappropriate guilt.
1:37.6	Is that resonating at all?
1:49.2	Yes. Do you believe that you have a right to be angry that you're kind of stuck with him?
1:52.2	Yes. Okay, then tell me what makes it safer for you in your mind to feel guilt versus to feel
1:59.2	guilt versus to feel unreasonable guilt instead of reasonable rage.
2:07.4	Tell me what makes it safer. Because I would want to tell him about the anger.
2:27.0	But I don't want to so then I just go ahead and I just
2:31.0	keep your five.
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