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Try and 11 Rob. Welcome to the program. Hi good afternoon, Dr. Laura. Thanks for taking my call. Good afternoon. What's up? So I'm going to try to have a conversation in which I can shut up and hear you because when I listen to your program oftentimes.

People don't know the value of a conversation. I'll start with that. Well, thank you. And I want to thank you very much for your advice. I first listen to you when I was in high school and junior high. I'm 40 now.

And recently rediscovered you on serious XM used to really be a big fan of talk radio and would listen to you and Bruce Williams when he had his program.

Yes, the one on talk net, I believe. Yes.

So the one thing that really stuck out this week that is a common theme that you keep talking about is when you get divorced and you have out of lessons not to continue dating and not to get back into the dating scene and that's very tough to hear.

But I can understand why why you say that. And I have a 12 year old son.

His mom and I were married for 20 years. We got married very young at the age of 18. I joined the military.

And I was a jerk for most of the marriage. So what's after our divorce. I ended up dating a woman.

And we were we have been dating for nearly a year. And after hearing the common theme, probably a dozen times.

And you're harping on your female colors.

And I'm deciding to go ahead and take action. And so I pulled over.

I'm headed up to Pennsylvania from Virginia. And I'm going to break up with her.

And I'm going to take another relationship and get back on to the sites. I'm going to take the time out that I need to spend with him.

And I'm going to take the time out of the community. And I'm going to take the time out of the community.

I have three kids. My oldest is 21. And my middle child is 19. They're both girls. And they've turned out to be amazing young women. Very independent and thoughtful.

I want to say I want to say I want to say I want to thank you for continuing to use this medium to tell us what we don't like to hear but what we need to hear.

Thank you, Rob. Thank you for being so good at conversation. And I hope it works well.

That's great. Sad with three kids. We have to have a divorce, but you guys could just be good to

do each other and wait till the kids are all up and out. It would be great for the kids. And I doubt,

I mean, I've been doing this program for over 45 years and nobody has called and ever said,

I regret that I didn't wait till my kids were grown. To date, nobody's ever said that.

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