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Dr. Laura Call of the Day

I Keep Reliving My Abandonment

Dr. Laura Call of the Day

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.46K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Despite past abandonments, Dr. Laura shows Carrie that her life is filled with people who stepped up and committed themselves to her. 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

0:08.9

serious xm. Triumph 111.

0:11.1

Harry, welcome to the program.

0:13.0

Hi, Dr. Laura, thank you for taking my call.

0:16.5

Thank you.

0:17.5

So I'm 46 and for as long as I can remember I've always had an issue with commitment and

0:30.6

Why would anybody who forever have a commitment issue?

0:35.0

And by the way, define commitment as you understand it.

0:40.0

Commitment means to you. So commit to me means being tied down to something. Okay, stop right there.

0:52.0

Stop right there. Stop right there.

0:54.0

Perfect.

0:56.0

If commitment meant tied down to something, to me, I wouldn't do it either.

1:00.0

Ooh. either.

1:05.0

Oh. Really I wouldn't.

1:07.0

The minute somebody said, hey, let's have it tied down.

1:11.0

I'd go, no. I mean, maybe I didn't choose the right words. Okay, but let's try it again.

1:21.6

Okay, so I mean I think the only way I can do it is give you an example and that would be

1:29.3

right to tell me what it is. You're doing great. Stick with it. Well, to me it's, I don't

1:39.9

want to say tied down, but it's's like maybe it's the closeness like okay as far as

1:47.4

relationships it's the closeness because well you can be because...

1:58.0

Well, you can be close feeling without a commitment. So commitment adds something to it.

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