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The Dr. Laura Podcast

I Don't Believe in Marriage

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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I Don't Believe in Marriage: Mary doesn't want to marry her boyfriend even though they have a 4-year-old son together. - Dr. Laura: "Give your child the hope and dream of a loving, committed relationship." | 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.

0:09.6

Welcome to the program.

0:12.0

Hi, thank you, Dr. Lera.

0:14.3

Thank you.

0:16.8

What can I do for you?

0:20.0

So my question to you is my my situation, my boyfriend and I have been together for five years

0:28.5

next month.

0:29.7

And why do we date somebody for five years?

0:32.6

Is that because we're not interested in marriage or we have minor kids or what?

0:40.8

We do have a four-year-old son together.

0:45.6

Why are you not married to the guy you had an illegitimate kid with?

0:49.2

I just my I guess my view on marriage with someone.

0:59.2

Oh, I'm dying to hear your view on marriage.

1:02.0

And before you do that, tell me your view on the stats of what happens to kids whose parents don't marry.

1:10.0

Because you see you have a personal view and then there's a statistical reality.

1:15.0

Yeah.

1:17.0

So if you have a personal

1:21.0

vendetta with marriage, now you put this on a kid.

1:24.9

So you're going to raise the kid to never marry.

1:27.7

Because it's dangerous, it's disappointing.

1:33.2

Yeah.

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