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The Dr. Laura Podcast

I Want to Be Closer

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Tina is hurt that her adult daughter doesn't want to be as close as Tina does. 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 radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious XM Triumph 111.

0:11.0

Tina, welcome to the program. Thank you Dr Laura. Hi, what's up? Well, I'm really honored to speak with you, so forgive me for my flutters. I am

0:26.5

majorly adult woman at this point and I have adult children which I guess the old song Two Out of Three Ain't Bad because two of my kids

0:38.0

talked me on a pretty regular basis, but that one little sheep, she's my middle daughter, she's 30, and she has been pushing me away, you know, less conversations with me, less and less sharing the things that are going on in her life.

0:57.0

And you know, I know I can't control her and I've had a very frank discussion, conversation brief with her that I'm hurting because I feel like I'm losing my connection with her.

1:09.0

And she just says, oh yeah, sure mom, we'll talk soon and then nothing changes so I guess I need some

1:15.9

hope with knowing how to you're demanding too much you're demanding too much. Yes.

1:23.0

I can already tell from what you said.

1:26.0

Okay.

1:27.0

When they're 30, they don't tell their mommy's everything anymore.

1:30.0

They don't have a need like a little kid with her best girlfriend to unload every piece of thought feeling

1:36.6

I mean there are privacy and embarrassing things and all kinds of stuff that's none of your damn business

1:42.3

So for you to get whiny and

1:44.1

sad that it's not the way it was is for you not to let go. She's not your best

1:49.9

friend. She's an adult now and she's got to leave the nest and withdraw some of that.

1:57.1

We discuss everything, business.

1:59.3

This is normal and healthy.

2:01.7

For you to complain about it is kind of destructive.

2:05.0

Okay.

2:07.0

Okay.

2:10.0

Okay. I would call her up if I were you and I would say you know what I've been giving great

2:23.6

thought to what you said and you're absolutely right minute you say that her

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