I'm Angry About My Mom's Double Life

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🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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I'm Angry About My Mom's Double Life - Karen's continued anger over her mother's infidelity is preventing them from having a decent relationship. - Dr. Laura: "Being resentful adds no value to your life." - What are you angry about that you'd be better off letting go of? Email me your thoughts at: [email protected] | To 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. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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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.
0:10.0	Try and 11 Karen welcome to the program. Thank you Dr. Moore for taking my call. I'm in a listener of yours for a long time.
0:18.0	I have been struggling for quite a while because my mother, I'm an only child, my mother and I've had a tumultuous relationship, you know, through the teenage years as normal, through the young adult years.
0:32.0	And then we kind of got a little bit better.
0:35.0	In the last five or six years, it's gotten a little bit worse. My dad passed away seven years ago. And when he passed away, I kind of really reconnected with her and tried to forgive and forget.
0:45.0	But my mother cheated on my dad with the same man for over 20 years. And I just can't, I can't let that go. And I can't get over it. And I've talked to friends, I've talked to counselors and.
0:59.0	What do you mean you can't get over it? I don't know what that means. I'm just resentful. Very resentful towards my mother.
1:09.0	Well, how about you? Okay, you're resentful to your mother that she had. She let a double life. Yeah.
1:17.0	Okay. I mean, can you work yourself up to be upset and angry right now? Oh, yeah.
1:24.0	Well, why bother?
1:26.0	I don't know. That's what I need to get. Why bother at this point? Why bother?
1:31.0	Did she not feed you? Did she beat you? Did she abandon you? Did she neglect you? I need to know directly how it impacted you?
1:39.0	No. I mean, she never did anything. You know, writing her eyes. But.
1:46.0	Well, that's a different story. Yeah. That's her personality trait. Yeah.
1:50.0	I'm saying whether it was good, better and different. It didn't take away from her providing mothering to you. In spite of the fact she may have been picky and annoying. Yeah.
2:01.0	So cut the resentment. There's no, there's nothing. There's no value in it.
2:08.0	You're right. There's not.
2:15.0	And you realize you just gave her a tit for tat? No, no, I'm just telling you just old. You just said it. It was so good.
2:27.0	You could never do anything right in her eyes and you're never going to let her do anything right in your eyes because you're going to stay resentful.
2:33.0	Oh, so we've got to stand off. Yeah. Yeah.
2:39.0	Yeah. Yeah. You're right. That's different. Maybe that's why I do that. Maybe that's not. Yeah.
2:48.0	You're right. I need to let it go and just be done with it. Yeah. Cause her personality ain't going to change. No, it's not.
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