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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Margaret knows that she married a great man, so why is it so hard for her trust him to make the right decisions for their family? 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 downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph 11th.
0:12.9	Margaret, welcome to the program.
0:15.4	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thanks for having me on. I'm looking for a little advice, probably a lot of advice. I feel like I'm
0:26.9	sabotaging or screwing up my marriage. I'm married for 25 years. Two kids. Their dad is the man I'm married to.
0:40.3	And so having issues with controlling my husband, with things like,
0:53.3	so this has been going on probably from the get-go.
0:58.1	I would control him with sex.
1:00.6	I would control his behavior with just how money is spent,
1:06.6	jobs or things like that.
1:11.1	And we have talked about it numerous times about how it is, shows disrespect to him.
1:21.5	Those are things that I don't want to do.
1:24.3	And over the years, I have made some improvements with that but I feel like just in
1:31.3	general I feel like it's a thought process I have inside of my head of what to think about or how
1:41.5	what what what should I be thinking about ma'am the thought process in your head
1:47.9	says what to you that when he requests me to do something uh or makes a decision for us that there's a part of me that's resistant to it.
2:05.8	I, so like I said, I didn't, I didn't know, I don't want to hear what you said. Don't want to
2:11.1	hear what you said, because I heard it. So you're resisting and tell me the thought process that
2:16.9	goes into the resistance.
2:19.7	I feel that I'm, I feel independent. I feel, you know, I feel, I, I recognize that I resist, I guess, being told what to do.
2:38.0	Even though logically I know my husband is not telling me what to do,
2:43.0	I struggle with that I feel maybe he's controlling me,
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