I Need to Do Something for Myself

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Kelli dedicated herself to raising her three sons after her devastating divorce. Now that they're adults, she's trying to decide what might fulfill her. 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
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious
0:09.5	XM Triumph 111. Kelly, welcome to the program.
0:13.2	Hi, Dr. Laura, thank you for taking my call today.
0:16.2	You are welcome.
0:18.2	So I'm going to go right to the point.
0:21.1	I appreciate all the work that you do. I've been listening for about a year now
0:26.0	Straight to the point I I got married in 96 was married for 10 years we had children, and we went through a horrific devastating divorce
0:36.1	of infidelity and all that.
0:38.5	Why was it a terrible divorce?
0:40.2	What happened?
0:40.7	Yeah.
0:42.1	Well, was he, the girl he went with he had her move in for a kid
0:46.3	in school we were still married during the time it was just it was just very
0:51.5	because it was out of the blue the cheating he moved his
0:55.6	girlfriend into your home he moved the girlfriend into his apartment near my
1:01.6	home oh oh where I was with the kids and she put her kid in
1:05.6	school with mine, with one of my boys, and we weren't even finalized or divorce. It was really it was devastating for me personally because oh my God yes yeah yeah very very bad so
1:21.0	From the divorce in 2006, I was just trying to survive with my sons. I have three sons. They're all adults now. And dating for me wasn't even a question because they were little still and I was too
1:36.7	fraught to even think about getting emotionally connected to someone again. So I really just focused on my
1:45.8	boys. Good. They needed that. They needed that. Yes, they did and I was there
1:51.7	for everything. I never left and never went anywhere.
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