I Drove My Parents Away

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Matthew moved his family to be closer to his parents, then treated them so poorly that they moved to get away from him! Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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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 serious XM Triumph 111.
0:11.0	Matthew, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:15.0	I'm a little nervous, but glad to talk to you.
0:20.0	I have a little bit of a dilemma.
0:22.0	I, about maybe seven years ago I moved closer to my parents
0:26.0	with my kids and everything to kind of have a closer relationship with them
0:30.0	and then maybe a year or two later they moved out of state.
0:35.0	And since they moved out of state...
0:36.0	Okay, Matthew, whoa, whoa!
0:39.0	You moved closer to them with your wife and kids?
0:41.0	Yes or no? Yes? Yes? And you did that so you'd be
0:45.1	closer that makes it sound to me like you hadn't been and you thought the move
0:50.0	would help create it?
0:58.7	No, just to have a closer relationship so the kids would go to their house and we always had a close relationship but just that we were literally down the street.
1:06.0	Did you ever ask them if that's what they wanted?
1:10.0	They were the ones that were pushing for it.
1:18.0	Ah, so they were pushing for you to move down the street and then a year or so later they moved out of state
1:22.0	what happened in the interim what do you think
1:25.3	stimulated the move out of state? They were saying they want to be closer to
1:30.8	family out of state they wanted to be closer to my grandma, which I understand, but it turned out that they don't, they're not really following through with some of the stuff that they were saying.
1:43.0	They don't talk to the family out there.
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