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🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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After many years as an alcoholic, Leslie is in recovery and looking for help with rebuilding her life. 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 heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph 11.
0:12.9	Leslie, welcome to the program.
0:16.5	Hi, Dr. Laura. Can you hear me okay?
0:19.6	Perfectly.
0:21.7	Okay, great. Laura. Can you hear me okay? Perfectly. Okay, great.
0:25.1	I'm a long-time listener.
0:27.8	Thank you.
0:29.0	And I called you once about five or six years ago after my children went to college and I was really struggling
0:39.8	with the emptiness and I was having a lot of depression and really sick of myself and all of the
0:51.2	grief and you really really helped me and gave me some direction, motivation, and ideas.
1:00.4	And I'm hoping for the same today.
1:05.2	I am three and a half years sober from alcohol.
1:11.7	I was divorced from my husband of 30 years, about a year and a half ago.
1:18.6	Oh, why?
1:19.7	What happened?
1:21.0	You got sober and then divorced.
1:22.9	What happened?
1:26.6	My theory is one. he is also an alcoholic and did not want to live a sober life.
1:35.9	And two, I think that he felt like I could actually survive him leaving if being sober with all of the support that I had.
1:52.5	Oh.
1:54.5	And so, I mean, you finally...
1:57.0	Your ex-husband have any friends?
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