I'm Not a Crier

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🗓️ 9 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Susie wonders if something is wrong with her since she never seems to feel emotion as strongly as other people do. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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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 Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Susie, welcome to the program. Thank you, Dr. Laura. Hi. Hi. How can I help?
0:19.7	I was listening the last hour and you had a gal on there who had four older brothers
0:26.6	and she was the only girl and her mom was a good mom but wasn't real.
0:32.6	Couldn't stop crying.
0:34.6	I got it.
0:35.6	Yeah.
0:36.6	You couldn't stop crying. So I honestly have the opposite
0:41.0	effect of the same kind of, I'm not, I'm sure, perfectly same, but I don't cry. I can't.
0:49.6	Sometimes I just feel like when people are like upset around me, I had a friend that was crying
0:56.0	about something. I just feel like there's nothing in there to cry. Like it just doesn't come out.
1:01.5	So I don't know how to. I'm sorry. When a friend is crying, you think you're supposed to cry too?
1:07.5	Or there's something wrong with you? No, she was emotional
1:10.9	and I was like, why?
1:13.0	I mean, it was an emotional thing.
1:14.7	And I'm like, why?
1:16.4	Like, I feel like there's...
1:17.7	Well, it wasn't emotional.
1:19.2	Everybody's different in what touches them.
1:22.8	Yeah.
1:24.3	But I don't really...
1:25.5	It's not useful to measure yourself against other people.
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