I Can't Stand My Mother

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🗓️ 9 August 2016

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Mona and her mother have clashed since Mona's teen years and, decades later, she's still trying to figure out how to get along. 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 serious
0:09.5	XM Triumph 111. Mon, welcome to the program.
0:13.0	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:15.0	Hi.
0:16.0	I really don't know that I have a question for you, so I'm just going to tell you that I'm a 59-year-old woman and I can't stand my mother. And I'm sure I'm not the only
0:27.8	one that feels that way, but the problem is that 20 years ago before my father died, they both asked me to be the executrix of their wills.
0:39.0	Well, my father died about 10 years ago. My mother remarried and she has basically kind of abandoned
0:47.2	her own children. I'm the youngest. And she is, I mean, I had a conversation with her the other day and I said mom your
0:58.2	children just want to have a relationship with you she called me a bully and got up and stormed out of the restaurant.
1:05.0	And this is the way she's been treating me and I don't know how I should respond to that anymore because I'm she's ever been in a very
1:15.0	empathetic mother and I always have class with her every since I was a teenager but I
1:21.0	don't know what to do anymore. I'm just nothing nothing nothing nothing
1:26.1	nothing that was three of them stop doing anything about it except that you didn't get lucky in the mother department and give
1:36.6	it a rest.
1:39.0	Don't keep asking her to be something you want and need and would like.
1:42.6	Stop it.
1:44.4	There's no point to that.
1:48.6	How would you like of every time you go?
1:50.3	Shh!
1:51.9	I didn't say that I didn't say that if that's what you're leading me that's one
1:59.1	thing and you can do anything you please you want to have lunch with her, then don't bring up
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