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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Joe isn't happy in his marriage, but he doesn't want to leave, and he hasn't come up with a plan to improve things. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - 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
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on
0:08.9	serious xm triumph 111. So welcome to the program. This is a stay or should I go question. I, um, I've been married
0:18.8	I don't, I don't answer those. You don't? Because it's your choice. No. Okay. Well, when I
0:26.8	I just spoke with. Why would you let anybody decide for you whether you should
0:31.2	stay in your marriage or not?
0:33.0	Well, actually when I spoke with Dan, he goes,
0:36.0	I was, this is a stay or should I go question.
0:38.0	That wasn't my original thing to bring up.
0:40.0	I see.
0:41.0	Okay.
0:42.0	My question is it okay I'm sorry my question is more how do you feel
0:50.0	staying in a marriage that you argue a lot.
0:53.2	I know it's not good for the kids, but how much do you think it affects the grandkids?
1:00.6	I don't know. I don't know how to give it a number, but it's unpleasant for everybody.
1:07.0	Yeah, okay. Yeah, I've been battling this. I had filed for divorce many years ago and I stayed for the kids but during a lot of arguments I get thrown down a lot I feel like kind of like I've been neutered and but I've continued to say and then
1:25.1	there's there's good times where we're roommates and then there's good times
1:29.0	where I feel in love and so I that was my biggest question I've got past the kid part of it and I can
1:36.6	just walk away from it but the grand kid part of it's starting to come up. But, okay.
1:47.0	Yeah, I think you're right, it's my decision. The other question I had is when you you've said when you you've said when you
2:00.7	were younger a nun told you something about making hard decisions and I forget the
2:05.8	quote you said it's it's like it's harder to make the decision to change something does that ring any bells with you?
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