I'm Tempted

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🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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20-year-old Adam wonders how he can squash his temptation to cheat on his girlfriend. 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.
0:11.4	Adam, welcome to the program. Hi there. How's you going? Good. How can I help?
0:18.9	Good. So why I'm calling is, and I heard about you from my mom, but I'm 20 years old.
0:26.8	I've been dating my girlfriend for going on three years.
0:31.4	And my question for you is, in the past, probably for the last, I don't know, year, year plus,
0:40.8	so a good chunk of our relationship, I've definitely been tempted with temptation
0:45.1	of other women before.
0:47.3	Um, and it's, it's purely, it's purely sexual.
0:52.8	It's not emotional because I love my girlfriend and I know that,
0:56.5	but I have had that temptation at times.
0:59.2	So I guess I wanted to kind of get your thoughts on things.
1:02.7	Well, you're a young male of 20.
1:06.2	You're horny most of the time would be my guess.
1:09.2	So I'm not surprised you feel that way, but the quality of
1:13.2	the character of a man is if he caters to temptations. That builds or unravels the thing we call
1:23.6	character. Resisting temptation requires character.
1:30.6	So you decide if you want to be an honorable man or not, that you're going to be horny
1:36.2	most of the time.
1:37.1	Don't worry when you're 60, it probably will fade somewhat.
1:40.8	You won't be that way all the time.
1:43.1	It changes over time.
1:45.1	But in the in between, yeah, you're going to be tempted at your ears.
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