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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Is My Husband Having a Mid-Life Crisis?

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Theresa's husband's new hobby is forcing her to consider divorce. 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 Sirius XM Triumph 11.

0:11.5

Teresa, welcome to the program. Yes. Hi, Dr. Laura. I just have a question. I don't quite know how to feel about it.

0:24.2

I'll just jump right in.

0:27.0

I'm 68, my husband's 62.

0:31.3

We've been married 25 years.

0:32.6

It's our second marriage.

0:34.4

And he is currently has a new hobby. And it is, it is, he loves rockability all of

0:46.7

for the last year. And it evolved with liking cars. And we both like antique cars together, classic cars.

0:56.3

But there was a few times I couldn't go with him last year,

1:00.5

and he stumbled upon this rockabilly culture, and he really loves it.

1:07.9

And I don't have a problem with it except that it's there's a lot of um

1:13.3

pinup girls and they do contests and they're nice people and nothing wrong with that

1:21.0

everybody do it on thing but he likes to um take pictures of them um with them on a car in various positions.

1:33.3

And they're like mostly in their 40s.

1:37.3

And he likes to hang with them and he's online with them.

1:42.3

He likes their pictures. And a lot of their pictures are garter belts, and they're not overly nude, but he does like that.

1:52.5

And I'm telling him I don't feel comfortable with it.

1:56.9

I don't think it respects me, and I just don't know what to think about it. If I should just

2:03.5

drop it, let him do his hobby. But maybe in 68, I have nothing in common with these 40-ish

2:09.2

year old women in garter belts and tattoos. It's a whole culture of that with rockabilly music,

2:16.9

which I love the music's good. but anyway, I don't know how to

2:20.9

think about it if I should just drop it or just...

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