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The Dr. Laura Podcast

I'm Choosing My Niece Over My Sister

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Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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I'm Choosing My Niece Over My Sister - Wendy wants to invite her sister's stepdaughter to a graduation event, but it's causing a problem, because Wendy's mom and sister don't want her on the guest list. - Dr. Laura: "Desperate parents tend to side with difficult children over their more easy-going kids." | 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 triumph 11.

0:11.0

Hi, Laura. Hi, sweetie. What can I do for you? Hi, my daughter is graduating from college and my older sister is at battle with her stepdaughter.

0:27.0

I've asked her are you divorcing her and she want to answer the question, but she won't speak to her or have anything to do with her.

0:35.0

I'm sorry. Your oldest sister is she your full sister or a half sister? She's my full sister. And you two have a stepmother.

0:47.0

No, my sister is a stepmother.

0:50.0

Your sister is a stepmother and she's fighting with who her stepdaughter and how old is her stepdaughter?

1:01.0

Her stepdaughter is 53 and has been her stepdaughter since she was 15 years old.

1:08.0

And the reason there at odds is my brother in law passed away since we've been in COVID.

1:18.0

And he fell and broke his leg as soon as COVID happened. So my niece happened to be in town.

1:25.0

Father's Day weekend to visit her dad. And while he stayed alive for 10 more months, they got to go to battle over his care, how he was being taken care of by my sister.

1:44.0

The best of your knowledge, which one of them was nuts?

1:49.0

My sister.

1:51.0

Okay. Now let's go on with your story about your daughter's graduation by the way. Congratulations. Go ahead.

1:58.0

Thank you. She is graduating from college and my mother has told me that if I invite my niece, so I consider my niece,

2:08.0

if I invite my niece to the graduation, that I'm betraying my sister and I need to make a choice.

2:19.0

Okay. I hope you're going to make the right choice and what do you think that is?

2:25.0

I'm going to let my sister know that if she cannot carry herself in an adult manner at my daughter's graduation, then I'm going to ask her to stay home.

2:35.0

So you are inviting her daughter.

2:39.0

My niece is also my daughter's godmother. She was made of honor in my way.

2:43.0

I don't care about that because most people have no clue as to what a godmother is. So I just want to leave that out.

2:49.0

Okay. That's only about religious instruction. There's nothing else.

2:54.0

That is not the purpose of a godparent. But let's leave that since 99% of people have no clue as to what that is, even though it's their own religion.

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