I Don't Know How to Live on My Own

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Michael is newly divorced and floundering since his ex-wife ran their home and did practically everything for him. 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. You can hear my live
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on
0:08.9	serious xm. Triumph 111., welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi doctor, how are you today?
0:16.0	Good, thank you.
0:18.0	How can I be helpful?
0:19.0	I'll get right to my point.
0:21.0	I say I'm tied to my family's apron strings. What I mean by that
0:28.0	is when you're a little kid you depend on your mom and dad for everything they give you money they take care of everything okay
0:35.1	i got married at a very young age
0:37.8	my wife could care of everything
0:39.6	i was a i jumped from my parents apr strings to her April strings.
0:43.4	Okay, I'm recently divorced and now I have no clue how to do anything because I'm still
0:50.8	a child basically because I don't know how to do anything I don't know how to run a household
0:54.8	I don't have to do anything and now I'm on my own and I'm kind of finding myself constantly
1:00.4	calling her for help which I don't want to do but what kinds of things do you need help
1:06.2	with help me understand well well like like bills okay okay this payments do when this payments do, you know, and I'm not a very, I'm 57 years old, so I'm not very good on the computer and a lot of stuff you got to pay through the computer nowadays, and I'm not very good at that.
1:25.0	So I just I just struggle with with like certain tasks and it kind of gets me to where to the point where okay I want to act like an
1:37.7	adult but I still need your help.
1:42.2	Okay so what how long have you been not living with your wife?
1:47.0	For about eight years now.
1:51.0	So tell me how you have been paying bills and making sure you have food on the table and the rest of that.
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