I Don't Want to Live Near My Brother!

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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How can Phyllis nicely tell her brother that she wishes he would not move to her town? 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 radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Hillis, welcome to the program.
0:14.4	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call.
0:18.2	My pleasure. What's going on?
0:24.2	I have a situation where I have a younger brother.
0:34.2	I'm 67. He's 65. And I live in Washington State. He lives in California. And he's talking about moving closer to me to be closer to family.
0:38.9	And I would prefer...
0:40.2	I'm sorry, who else is family where you live?
0:44.0	Where I live, I have my children, my husband, and where he lives, he has a girlfriend
0:53.0	that I believe he intends to marry.
0:56.6	Oh, so you're the only family. Where are the rest of everybody, parents, aunts, uncles,
1:01.7	grandparents? Yeah. Are both of our parents? Both of our parents have passed away. I have
1:09.1	another brother in Nebraska that he's not very close to.
1:16.0	He has four children.
1:18.7	His wife passed away about six or seven years ago.
1:23.3	And the four children are all in their 20s and 30s and don't care to have much to do with them.
1:32.2	Yeah.
1:32.8	Yeah.
1:35.9	So I have an opportunity to go down to California in a couple weeks, and I will make a point to visit with him and I need a I need wording to say to him
1:54.3	that I don't I don't want him to rely on me when he moves.
2:03.3	He's talking about moving into the next city over.
2:06.4	And in what ways do you think he would be relying on you?
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