I Didn't Do the Right Thing

Dr. Laura Call of the Day

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Ray has come to realize that living with his girlfriend and her kids is not in the best interest of his son. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my Call of the Day podcast.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Ray, welcome to the program.
0:13.9	Hi, thank you.
0:15.5	You're welcome.
0:16.7	What's up?
0:18.6	Hey, uh, well, I have a situation where I dated somebody for some time, about six or seven years.
0:28.5	She lived with me with her kids.
0:30.1	I have a child all under the age of 13.
0:35.3	Things unfortunately didn't work out. And we're kind of still in a situation where we want to
0:42.2	see each other but we don't whether or not we should just continue or just move on and after
0:49.7	listening to you for quite some time the last week or so, I'm kind of thinking with minor children,
0:56.5	it's probably best just to leave it as is and move on, but I just want your opinion.
1:04.6	Of course that's in their best interest. They lost their original family. Now we had a, yes, we have one, no, we don't, have another makeshift one with dad paying attention to some other woman's children when we need his full attention because we lost our home as a mom and dad and all of that.
1:22.7	And getting familiar with her, getting familiar with the kids, that's ripped away again.
1:28.7	These kinds of things are so thoughtless that adults do and don't consider we had a call
1:35.7	in the last hour with a woman. It was a divorce and remarriage and new kids. And she pointed out that
1:42.7	she's still hurt,
1:46.5	hurt from what seems like a lack of concern
1:49.9	about the impact of choices on children.
1:52.6	So your choice to shack up and bring people together
1:56.1	where there was no commitment,
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