I Fear I Messed Up My Child

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🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Grace is the first to admit she screwed up her life and her kids' childhoods, but is she to blame for her oldest becoming an alcoholic? 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 serious
0:09.5	XM Triumph 111. Grace, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi Dr Laura, how are you today?
0:17.0	Good, what can I help you with?
0:19.0	Dr Laura, I have made a complete mess of my life and that of my children and so I am
0:27.3	Oh let that was stop stop stop stop stop stop start start
0:31.2	start all over again and don't exaggerate.
0:35.0	Dr. Laura, I have made big mistakes. I knew better and now my daughter is an alcoholic or I should say she consumes alcohol throughout
0:46.5	the day and she has for more than a decade and... How do you think you're responsible for that.
0:54.2	Isn't that a personal choice on her part?
0:57.2	How are you responsible?
0:58.2	Yes.
0:59.2	It is, but I believe that me being a single parent of three children, different fathers, really played a big part.
1:08.5	I did not realize the damage I was doing to my family thinking I could do it all.
1:16.0	How did you find three guys?
1:18.0	Went in the military.
1:22.0	It was pretty easy.
1:25.0	I just made foolish mistakes.
1:28.0	I came from a very violent, bloody childhood.
1:32.5	And most of my sisters became teen mothers.
1:37.0	I didn't because I stayed with academics.
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