I Don't Value Relationships

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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What Scott calls indifference about friendship, love and commitment, Dr. Laura calls self-defensiveness. 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.
0:11.3	Scott, welcome to the program.
0:14.5	Hey, Dr. Laura. How are you?
0:16.7	Good. Thank you. How can I help?
0:19.2	All right. Yes. So I don't know that... Okay. I just kind of preface it. Very simply, I don't value relationships.
0:33.0	Why? Why not? I'm married.
0:34.7	You have so many of them, and frankly, you probably curl up and die without them. So whether you say you value them or not, you rely on them, you enjoy them, you need them, and you take care of most of them. So I think what you're saying is kind of nonsensical. You have a lot of good relationships. There are a lot of
0:55.9	people who care about you who enjoy you, who are impressed with you, who are happy with you,
1:01.6	and pissed at you, all of this stuff. And you have people you've noticed that when you needed to talk
1:09.1	or needed some help, you know, they helped you
1:12.0	clean out the gutters on your house roof.
1:14.7	So I challenge you to tell me I'm wrong.
1:20.4	I don't think I can challenge it.
1:22.2	I think I, when I make that statement, it's more of an internal.
1:25.9	I can play the outside.
1:27.1	I can show people, it's a ton an internal. I can play the outside. I can show people,
1:29.4	it's a ton of work to show that I'm appreciative of a relationship. That's right. That's good.
1:34.3	That's what we all do. It's a ton of work. No, sir, you're mistaken if you think that isn't true for
1:40.3	everybody. Everybody has to put work in and do things that are gracious that they don't
1:46.6	really necessarily feel like, but they know it's the right thing to do. So they do it.
1:52.0	You're mistaken if you think your internals are different from anybody else's. You need the
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