I'm Mad About My Ex's Girlfriend

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Although she's happy to be divorced from her abusive ex-husband, Sarah is angry that he has moved on with another woman. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - 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.

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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 two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM.
0:10.0	Try and 11. Sarah, welcome to the program. Hi, I'm calling hoping that you can help me resolve my anger.
0:20.0	My husband and I got the worst last July after a long should have happened a long time ago, a domestic violence, alcoholism.
0:31.0	In between time, he's been in jail and out and I've done everything to help him see his daughter when he can leave a 13 year old.
0:42.0	My thing is now he has a girlfriend, which is fine, but I don't know why I'm so angry. I mean, he he lied to me about the girl that she was just a friend.
0:56.0	And now that he's living Sarah, Sarah.
1:00.0	Yeah.
1:01.0	He found another silly woman, men like him don't want to be alone.
1:08.0	That's like he's put up with this. He found another silly woman.
1:14.0	Like you've been silly. I know. I know. I don't think you know. I don't think you know.
1:23.0	You've been too busy holding on to him, desperately, hoping he would change and love you.
1:30.0	It's a terrible disappointment that all the things you did to help him, he didn't change and love you.
1:39.0	So you worked, worked and worked for the love and never got it.
1:44.0	And you, there are two things I want to say about that. The least important of the two things I want to say about that is you think he loves her.
1:52.0	Of course he does not, but he found another silly woman to take care of him.
2:00.0	Now why would there be another silly woman to take care of him? So let's go back to number one.
2:06.0	Where did you get the notion that you had to work that hard to be loved?
2:12.0	That's a good question.
2:15.0	Take me back.
2:17.0	Take me back.
2:20.0	Probably when I was a kid.
2:24.0	How was that when you were a kid? What do you mean?
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