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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Lydia's daughter moved an ex-convict into her home, exposing Lydia's 14-year-old granddaughter to who-knows-what kind of problems. 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.
0:02.4	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	Lydia, welcome to the program.
0:14.5	Yes, thank you, Dr. Laura.
0:16.5	I never thought I would be calling, but here we are.
0:20.0	Okay.
0:22.1	Let me know what's happening.
0:24.5	Okay.
0:25.2	I have a 46-year-old daughter.
0:28.7	She is a widow.
0:33.0	Her husband died about a month after they adopted a little baby.
0:37.4	And that baby is my granddaughter, and she's 14 years old now.
0:41.3	Well, my daughter gets online and she goes to a dating app and she finds the man that she's enamored with.
0:49.3	One month later, he moves in with her.
0:53.3	I had no idea that happened, but after knowing him now two months,
0:59.0	they come and they tell dad and I that they're going to get married, and they want to be
1:05.0	honest and totally up front. He just got out of prison. He served 16 years for interstate drug trafficking.
1:13.4	We were shocked.
1:14.7	He has lots of other little charges, too, mostly breaking and entering and all kinds of theft and assault on an officer and that.
1:23.8	I looked up the charges myself.
1:26.4	And we just didn't know what to say at the time, but the
1:29.7	next day we got her by herself and we said, oh my gosh, what are you doing? You know, what are
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