It's Always the Same Story with Mimi and Her Mother-in-Law

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Mimi says she dreads overnight stays with her difficult and demanding mother-in-law and wants something to change. 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 downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph 111. Mimi, welcome to the program.
0:15.7	Hi, Dr. Laura. Hi. What's up? Hi.
0:31.8	So I live in Cape Coast, Florida, and we just experienced another one of these, you know, one in a thousand-year storm situations.
0:37.3	And it's kind of funny how those get more and more frequent as times it goes on.
0:38.2	But that's not the point.
0:41.6	So, anyway, I live in a B zone.
0:42.8	It was evacuated.
0:49.9	We're right on the edge of it, so it was kind of questionable about the effort going into that.
0:55.2	Some of the question about evacuating has to do with where we evacuate to.
1:04.0	We're usually invited to my in-laws home under mandatory evacuations because they're in another zone.
1:05.4	They're at a little higher elevation.
1:07.6	Their distance from the coast is a little further than ours.
1:10.3	And so when the time came and the storm made the turn and the level went up, my husband and my father-in-law asked us to go to their house.
1:25.6	And that means we have a couple pets, we have some fat cats, and we have a lizard.
1:31.6	And so they go with because they're part of our family.
1:37.6	It's never really been like a major problem.
1:43.6	There's always a little bit of contention with my mother-in-law about the cats, but it's
1:49.4	from her, I think it's a little more, I don't think it's the cats that she gets upset about
1:59.7	us.
2:00.1	Okay, don't do an analysis, please. That's my job. Okay, sure. Yeah.
2:04.4	So whenever, when I'm there at her house, when the welcome wears off, it's palpable.
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