I Worry About Divorce

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🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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I Worry About Divorce: Linda has been in a rotten marriage for over 3 decades but can’t find the strength to end it. "You stay because you don’t want the challenges of leaving." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://family.drlaura.com/pg/jsp/help/general/privacypolicy.jsp for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.
0:03.8	Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.
0:09.8	Linda, welcome to the program.
0:12.3	Hi, Dr. Lauren.
0:14.5	Hi.
0:15.5	What can I do for you?
0:18.5	I have been in a pretty rotten marriage for 37 years.
0:26.3	Stayed in it.
0:28.3	Kids turned 18, went to college.
0:31.3	They still stayed in it.
0:33.3	Kids got married, still stayed in it.
0:36.3	Kids had kids, still stayed in it.
0:38.3	Hearing in 37 years later, and I can't make the break.
0:45.3	Okay, well, just accept that this is just ultimately more comfortable.
0:50.3	Not as hapifying, but ultimately, you know, a lot of people stay in
0:55.3	bad situations because the alternative has too many things they don't want.
1:01.3	Like, you know, the other person is going to be married, and then they'll be taking that person to Christmas and things like that.
1:08.3	And I'm going to be alone.
1:10.3	So there are all kinds of reasons that we stay in something.
1:16.3	Yeah, I can't.
1:17.3	I mean, it's money is really not an issue.
1:20.3	I have worked with my whole life, and I haven't asked enough a lot.
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