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Tina, welcome to the program.

Thank you for taking my call.

You're welcome.

I'm 57, and I'm in my second marriage, my husband's 67.

And when we got married, he had six kids from his first wife and I have two kids with my ex-husband.

And my youngest is 18 and 21 and they're out of the house.

His six kids are pretty much out of the house. They kind of come in and come out when they need to. But I'm mainly having trouble with his youngest daughter, who is 26, who I have to tell you this because it's important. She drowned when she was a baby and they were able to save her,

bring her back to life. And she's kind of been the special chosen child. In fact, he'll even

admit that she's the favorite. And the other kids, including myself, have all felt that he treats

her with special, he just treats her very special and very

patient with her. And she's managed to graduate from high school and, you know, get a driver's

license and in all respects, she seems like a pretty normal person. But she definitely has

trouble regulating her emotions.

And when I met her, she was 16 and she's now 26.

When I met her, I thought, oh, she's just a darling, sweet young girl, and I'm sorry about

her tragic past, and she's really overcome a lot, and I had a lot of sympathy for her.

But over the years with the special treatment by my husband and preferential treatment with her and attending to all of her needs and wants and desires constantly, I have often felt that he does too much to the point where now when she has a temper tantrum and she's 26 years old, we'll be out

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