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The Dr. Laura Podcast

I Didn’t Choose Wisely

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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I Didn’t Choose Wisely: After marrying and divorcing a bad guy, Sonia is struggling to raise her child alone. - Dr. Laura: "Character keeps us moving forward when we really mess up." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://family.drlaura.com/pg/jsp/help/general/privacypolicy.jsp for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.

0:03.8

Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.

0:09.8

Sonia, welcome to the program.

0:11.8

Hi Dr. Laura, wow, it's a privilege to speak with you.

0:16.0

Thank you.

0:17.0

I'm almost going to get a little emotional over it.

0:18.8

Anyways, so I guess I have, if not only I guess I just like on a life path and I'm trying

0:25.7

to understand what the best.

0:29.2

How did I guess deal with it?

0:30.6

So I had a bad picker and I picked a really bad man to marry and when you say really bad

0:40.0

man, how really bad was it?

0:43.2

I think I wanted the marriage, like I grew up in a very, I grew up in a telling household

0:47.6

and I think I wanted the marriage and more than maybe I did the right picking for my partner.

0:54.8

So I had a career and he also wanted to have a career but he wanted to move a lot.

1:03.5

I found that out after we got married that he wanted to keep moving from home to home

1:07.1

and city to city kind of chasing money and I really liked my government's stable job.

1:12.4

So I kind of wanted to stay close to my family and my support system.

1:16.6

Okay, but you need to calm down, please.

1:19.3

Okay, sorry to answer my question.

1:22.0

I just wanted to know what made him a bad man.

1:25.9

Well, he had a couple of fairs and he kind of I felt abandoned our relationship.

1:35.7

So I felt like when you were dating him, was he having a fairs?

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