I Feel Like I Live in a Zoo

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🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Jenny's husband insisted on getting lots of animals for their ranch home, but does little to care for them. 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.
0:11.4	Jenny, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. I've been listening to you for 26 years, and you're the reason I was a stay-at-home mom when my baby was little.
0:21.6	I was in San Francisco and I heard what you had to say and it's been the best listening to you so many years.
0:29.6	Thank you. Thank you.
0:31.6	So I have a life dilemma and it's a little weird.
0:34.6	I remarried four years ago. I was married to my children's father for 20.
0:41.7	And we moved during COVID to a large ranch. And we had lived in a big, big city. So my dilemma is my husband is a very sweet, kind man. However, he keeps...
0:53.5	No, no, no, slow down slow down slow down slow down
0:56.1	how did you meet a guy who lives on a ranch so he lived in the big city as well and when he was getting
1:04.7	ready to retire we we decided hey why don't we randomly buy a ranch?
1:16.2	He grew up on a farm originally, so that's what he wanted to get back to.
1:23.1	And do you have any experience on a ranch with lots of dirt and horses?
1:23.6	Zero.
1:27.3	What made you think that was interesting? You've got to tell me where this came from. I think I found
1:31.0	it. Yeah, I found it interesting. The city we were in had so many issues with fires and riots and
1:40.1	shutdowns and we'd walk out of our cond, and there would be fires in the dumpster.
1:46.1	So I think it was a little bit of a chance to get away from the city and do something new during the COVID time.
1:54.4	So whose money paid for the...
1:56.3	And my sons had gone off to college.
1:57.8	So who's money paid for the ranch?
2:05.0	Me. Mine. You bought a ranch.
2:14.7	Correct. May I ask how much this ranch cost? The ranch at the time before COVID was 900,000.
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