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Elizabeth, welcome to the program. Hi Dr. Laura, thanks for taking my call.

You're welcome. So my mom passed away about 2 and a half years ago at the age of 66,

and it was completely unexpected she wasn't sick or anything.

Yeah, since then, over the last like eight months or so, my dad has been starting to date a woman.

And I am very happy now that he has found a way to be happy because he's obviously been having

his struggles of his own. And I know this woman makes him happy. I'm struggling though,

and I'm going to be careful about using the word, but I have a reason for it. I'm feeling a

little bit guilty because I'm afraid I'm being wrong in how I feel about this. Okay, before you go

on, let me say, I don't give a damn about how you feel. I care only about how you behave.

You can feel as hurt and angry and confused and wish the world could go back in time. You could

feel a zillion different feelings. It's all in how you behave that you're gracious anyway. But

don't feel guilty about feelings. We don't control feelings. We only control actions.

So I don't care if you're pissed off, disappointed, angry, guilty. I don't know why guilty is in

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