I’m Putting My Kid in the Middle of My Relationship

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🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Is it in the best interest of Nicole’s one-year-old son to grow up with two parents hating each other? Searching for advice? 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 serious XM Triumph 111.
0:11.0	Nicole, welcome to the program.
0:13.8	Thank you for having me.
0:14.8	Thank you.
0:15.8	What can I help you with?
0:16.8	So yeah, basically two years ago and we now have a 20 month old son together two years ago. I rushed into a relationship with this guy.
0:28.0	Despite my better judgment, but I was lonely and I was looking for something and we ended up getting pregnant really early and then I realized like oh we're not super compatible we have different like religious type views and all that good stuff.
0:49.5	And then gosh, I realize like when he gets mad he has a temper which so do I and he would like
0:54.8	say horrible things to me when I was pregnant and then even after having her kid and
0:59.5	it's gotten to the point that I've finally I feel like I have so much resentment that I've now been physically
1:07.5	violent with him twice in front of our kid which I know is awful and the thing is we both have issues and yeah I could easily just walk away and be like you know I'm done
1:20.3	because it's gotten as far but we both are willing to look at our trauma and are both trying to do better
1:26.3	although he's not willing to do therapy and I don't know I guess I was just looking for your opinion on
1:48.8	My opinion is you ought to take the kid and leave I really don't care about your trauma I don't care about his trauma I care about the kids trauma because you two have been incredibly irresponsible and the kids in the middle of this and that's not right it's not moral it's not fair
1:54.4	so you need to get out of there go live with your parents go live with an aunt and uncle grandparents and just focus on raising the kid.
1:57.4	Hopefully he'll visit so he'll be something in the kid's life but this is not
2:01.9	reasonable and you two are not going to spontaneously turn
2:05.5	into responsible people for each other or the child.
2:09.2	So that has to be the priority.
2:11.5	What's in the best interest of the child?
2:14.7	And this isn't it.
2:16.4	Kid can't wait around for 10 years for you to get over your traumas.
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