I Chose Poorly

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🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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I Chose Poorly - Is there any way Dana can make a happy home for her children with a husband who is a drug-addicted cheater? - Dr. Laura: "Your kids deserve a home free from chaos." - Were you raised in a stable or chaotic home? Email me your thoughts at: drlaura@drlaura.com | To 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. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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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 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious XM triumph 11.
0:11.0	Dana, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi, Dr. Loura. This is so exciting. I wish I was calling under better circumstances.
0:21.0	I need some advice. I chose poorly when I married my husband.
0:31.0	I didn't know he wasn't addict then, but we always, you know, partied and had a good time, but I grew up and he didn't.
0:41.0	And that's for to now we've been married for 17 years. We have two kids five and one and his addiction has gone pretty far and he's starting to mess up and he recently had enough air.
0:57.0	I just, I can't believe we're here and I want to be a big girl, like you say, and I'm going to stay and make this marriage work because I don't want to share my kids and I'm going to make a happy home.
1:10.0	But what are you about? Dana, Dana, you can't make a happy home. You can't keep a marriage together when one is a flandering addict.
1:22.0	Get real woman. I mean, you just had a baby a year ago. Why you did that? Is anyone's guess? Yeah.
1:33.0	Why you're having unprotected sex with an addict? I don't know. But your little fantasy game with your head. I'm sorry. The likelihood is you can't have any of that.
1:47.0	You can't have the happy home. So you've got to figure out an alternative and here's where you talk to a very good lawyer about supervised visitation rather than giving up the kids every other week or nonsense like that.
2:06.0	That an addict necessarily would even want it, but you're going to have to get help to figure out how to keep control of as much of the situation as is feasible. You have no power over him.
2:19.0	None.
2:21.0	You're right. And please don't waste the kids lives with this. I want to keep a happy home. I'm a hell are you going to do that with a flandering method?
2:30.0	Madam, let's not go on with that and don't. Madam. Madam. Madam. Throw him out or go home to your mother.
2:39.0	Okay.
2:41.0	But first get an attorney.
2:44.0	First go to an attorney.
2:48.0	Rehab is the magic. He's just going to go there and come out perfect. Yeah, come on.
2:54.0	Find out the recidivism rate for meth addicts and rehabs. Just Google it.
3:00.0	And possible.
3:02.0	Google it. You made too many wrong decisions.
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