I Don't Feel Festive While Mourning

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Deborah's anticipating how difficult it'll be to spend the first Thanksgiving without her husband. 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 radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious
0:09.5	XM Triumph 111. Deborah, welcome to the program.
0:13.0	Hey, Dr. Laura.
0:15.0	Hey.
0:16.0	I think you are the one person I can trust to help me with my problem.
0:22.0	I lost my husband last January and we had an incredible
0:31.1	relationship.
0:33.0	The last holiday that we had was last Thanksgiving
0:38.0	and I'm having a real hard time approaching the holidays.
0:43.0	Okay, ma'am, I'm assuming that you called
0:47.3	to see if I had some means
0:50.8	of helping you enjoy the holidays in spite of the fact that he died.
0:55.0	Yeah, sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I wasn't. I said sorry can't do it. you hear me yeah can't do it you have to be miserable because
1:07.0	you miss him and that's what it's like
1:15.0	okay Okay.
1:20.0	That's life. That's life. It hurts.
1:22.0	It really sucks.
1:29.0	They're okay. Now we can make it hurt more or less but we can't stop it from hurting because indeed if you loved him you're
1:45.0	going to miss him and it's going to be painful. That's normal. But you can make
1:49.8	it worse by
1:53.0	yourself or you can be around friends and family and make the best of it.
2:00.4	But it's not going to stop you from missing him and feeling terrible that he's not here for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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