I Don’t Want to Lose My Wife

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Chuck realizes that he’s doing some of the same things in his current marriage that contributed to the end of his previous one. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:41.0	Chuck, welcome to the program.
0:43.0	Hello, Dr. Laura.
0:45.0	My, uh, I'm a 67 year old male and I have been remarried now for three years to a really terrific lady.
0:57.0	And some of the issues that I have known about and didn't get taken care of in my life and
1:08.0	and caused some trouble in my previous marriage. I can be very selfish, I can be very self-centered, I can be very immature
1:18.6	emotionally and I don't want to repeat those kinds of patterns with my new wife and I want to have a better relationship with her, you know, have the best relationship with her we possibly can.
1:35.0	Are there some resources or...
1:37.0	Are you trying to get me to believe that you don't know at any one moment the difference between being nice and not?
1:49.3	Oh no ma'am the problem is I do know when I'm behaving in an appropriate manner.
1:59.4	Right, so if you're aware of it, then you also realize you have control over it.
2:05.0	So you can say, oops, sorry, let me make this up to you.
2:09.0	I'm just trying to understand what
2:15.0	you're saying.
2:18.0	you're saying.
2:20.0	Well, I understand what you're saying. One of the things that a counselor told me years ago was that I was okay if it worked whatever the therapist told you if it worked we wouldn't be
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