I've Had to Become the Breadwinner

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🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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I've Had to Become the Breadwinner - Because of Molly's husband's anxiety, she has gone back to work full time while he stays home with the kids. - Dr. Laura: "Terrific people sacrifice for the greater good." | 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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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM triumph 11.
0:11.0	Molly, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Thank you. You're welcome. What's up?
0:18.0	Well, I've been married for 13 years and I dated my husband for eight years prior to that.
0:27.0	We have two we have two beautiful children, they're 10 and 6.
0:33.0	And my husband suffers from anxiety and was diagnosed with panic disorder as a teenager.
0:40.0	And I feel like with frequently his anxiety inhibits our growth as a family.
0:51.0	And probably compared to many families were doing well. It just sometimes seems like the anxiety is inhibitive and I just I've talked to people about it before.
1:04.0	I don't know what it is that you're saying. How does his anxiety. What is it inhibit?
1:13.0	Well, one example recently is that my husband suffered a back injury ended up having back surgery and then at the time I was working part time since that time he has now he is now focusing on our children and I'm working full time, but I work full time out of town.
1:33.0	I have a one and a half hour commute one way and we he doesn't want to move closer to my job. That's one example.
1:42.0	And why does anyone move closer to the job?
1:46.0	Well, he has I will say he does have good reasons for it. We live in we live in my hometown.
1:53.0	The kids go to the same school. I went to it's a wonderful school system. And my family is within 20 minutes of where we live and then his family is within 20 minutes of where we live.
2:05.0	So I think it's mainly because of the support here in the town we live in.
2:09.0	I would say so your kids do much better off with extended family.
2:14.0	I agree and we have great families.
2:18.0	Okay, well, you chose a job an hour and a half away. What can I tell you?
2:24.0	Well, the trick is I chose the job an hour and a half away because in the past this job was very flexible and let me work part time and I could pick the two days a week I worked at the time.
2:35.0	But now that my husband is not working, I needed I felt the need to carry benefits. And so I took on a full time role with.
2:44.0	Got it. So he's he is at home dad and you are the provider.
2:50.0	Yeah. Okay.
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