I Don't Know How to Be Strong

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2025

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Laura stayed with her deceitful and dismissive husband until the kids were grown, and now she feels too weak to leave. 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
0:09.0	Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Laura, welcome to the program.
0:13.6	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:15.1	Long-time listener.
0:16.5	Love you.
0:17.1	Thank you.
0:18.3	Thank you.
0:19.3	What's up?
0:20.2	I have been in 33 years of marriage. I married when I was 21. He's nine years older than me. And we have been through all kinds of crazy, hard things. Residency, he's a medical guy, very
0:40.5	incredibly bright, smart guy. We were deployed through the military, did all of that.
0:47.4	We raised three kids. And during the middle of all of those hard things, he wasn't faithful.
0:56.9	And we went through a lot of hard things trying to resolve that and heal.
1:03.0	And then I waited to have my last baby.
1:08.5	And then he was picking up and flirting with the real estate agent who
1:14.0	confided in me.
1:15.0	Oh, yeah, that happened.
1:17.8	And there's just so many more examples of these things.
1:26.0	And I just double down and stayed in the marriage.
1:31.8	And it's like having waves of great times and waves of crises mode because of
1:40.8	dishonesty.
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