I Want a Better Relationship With My Mom

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The older she gets, the more Erika wishes she had a better relationship with her mother. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - 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.

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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.
0:11.4	Erica, welcome to the program.
0:14.9	Thank you. Hi, Dr. Laura. Nice to be on the call or be on the program.
0:20.3	Thank you. I'm having an issue with my mother.
0:26.6	I was raised basically at home without much praise or love shown. There was a lot of selfishness on her part, which has continued into my adult life. I'm now 54.
0:40.6	I want to have a better relationship with her. She's 70 star and stop. Stop. Stop. Just stop.
0:49.2	Okay. To dream the impossible dream.
0:54.8	I can't help you with ridiculous dreams. It's never going to be better.
1:01.4	But if you want to hang around her, then tolerate it and stop hating her.
1:08.6	Those are the only choices you have, dear. If you want to be around her, then be around her and stop hating her.
1:17.4	And stop expecting her to change. Stop it.
1:25.0	You're wasting decade after decade of your life like that.
1:32.9	Yeah, you're right.
1:34.9	That's ridiculous. I'm not going to help you. I couldn't help you do something silly because I be telling you that the impossible dream can be made. It can't.
1:44.1	But if you'd like to see her and hang around with her sometimes, fine.
1:48.0	But if you have any expectations of feeling good about it all the time, that's just silly.
1:54.2	That's not mature.
2:00.6	Good perspective.
2:09.8	So realize she's a limited person. This is as good as you got when you got in line for a mother.
2:14.5	I guess you weren't paying attention.
2:18.4	You know, you got distracted. There was some cool looking guy on another line and you forgot to pay attention.
2:25.3	You went, yeah, just give me one of them. It'll be fine.
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