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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Shavonne's 10-year friendship imploded after she let her jealousy and insecurity get the best of her. 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.
0:11.6	Chavone, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Hi. Thank you so much for taking my call. I first want to thank you. You help me make the decision to become a stay-at-home mom about 20 years ago.
0:25.9	Excellent. And I now have a junior in college and a junior in high school, and I've been able to be with them every step of the way. So thank you so much.
0:34.1	You're very welcome, and thank you for doing the right thing.
0:38.9	Yes, thank you.
0:42.3	I've written down my thoughts just but I don't jumble my words,
0:47.1	but I have a dilemma regarding a friendship and a situation that's come up and I'm just not sure how to navigate.
0:50.0	Are you friends with this person right now?
0:53.8	Or is the friendship already damaged?
0:55.7	Yes.
0:55.9	Am I?
0:56.6	No.
0:57.1	Friendship is damaged?
0:59.0	No.
1:00.1	We are, we are rebuilding a friendship.
1:02.9	I can put it that way.
1:04.9	And is she working on the same thing, rebuilding it?
1:08.2	Are you doing it?
1:09.4	She doing it?
1:10.1	Are you both doing it? We are both doing it? We are both doing it.
1:13.5	We are both doing the work to come back together. Well, what happened that split this apart?
1:20.9	So that's my call. Last year, I was planning a trip for my milestone birthday, and she never confirmed that she would be coming.
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