I'm Sad About My Dad

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🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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I'm Sad About My Dad - Melissa wonders how she can find peace with her decision to place her father in a retirement home. - Dr. Laura: "Sometimes the best we can do is accept the sadness of a situation." - Have you ever had to place a family member into senior housing against their will? Email me your thoughts at: [email protected] | To 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. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:10.0	I'm 11. Melissa, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call. Thank you. I wonder. Thank you. I wonder if you can help me try to find some sense of peace with having to put my dad in a veteran's home.
0:32.0	He has been there for about nine months now. And you know, my main goal for putting him there having to put him there is safety and having support.
0:46.0	But I also hope and he and he has that. But I also hope that he would somehow get involved a little bit with activities that they have and socialize a little bit more.
1:04.0	But he's not doing any of that. And I have tried. I've gone there and you know, I visited him. I talk to him every day. And no matter what I've tried to do at peace with this. And you can't force him to behave in a way that makes you feel more peaceful.
1:25.0	Right. This is his experience. Not yours. You can't be at work. It's about it. You have to give that thought up. Right.
1:40.0	You have to accept that this is very sad. Whether he will in the future get involved in things or not. That's up to him, not you. So suggesting and pushing and all of that so that you will feel less guilty and uncomfortable is not going to change anything.
2:01.0	There's nothing for you to feel guilt about. It is just sad that he is in this condition at this time in his life. That's not your fault. Right.
2:14.0	I seem to carry the sadness every time I talk to him and then I hang up with him. Of course you will.
2:21.0	He's a plan on carrying the sadness as you have been plan on doing that till he dies. Right. That's a natural reasonable reaction to feel sad about it.
2:35.0	It was once a vital vibrant dude. And now these are the situation conditions he's living with. Normal natural for you to feel sad can't fix normal.
2:47.0	That is true.
2:55.0	Okay. Well, I feel like I knew that.
3:02.0	But needed to hear that.
3:07.0	Okay. Thank you, Dr. Laura.
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