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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Living As Roommates

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Living As Roommates: Despite counseling after her husband’s affair, Julie finds herself miserable and anxious living as “roommates” in her marriage. - Dr. Laura: "You didn’t change; you just went “punishment” mode." | 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

Julie, welcome to the program.

0:11.8

Hi Dr. Laura upper-time caller, long-time listener.

0:16.2

I am 56, I've been married 30 years and my husband was unfaithful,

0:25.0

back in like 2015.

0:28.8

We were separated for about a year, year and a half and decided to get back together

0:35.0

and after getting.

0:36.7

I'm sorry you can't hear me. Why did you decide to get back together?

0:41.6

Had there been significant changes on both of your parts?

0:46.7

We had gone to counseling. I had felt there was significant changes.

0:52.6

And described to me the changes in you and him that led you to believe this would work.

0:58.7

I felt that a lot of people were...

1:01.6

Can we not talk about feelings, madam?

1:04.0

Feelings are not facts. I can either watch somebody pet a dog or I can assume that the dog

1:09.4

was sitting there and he might have been petted. One's a fact, one's a conjecture.

1:14.1

So I need to know concretely what did you change, what did he change that made you both think

1:20.9

let's get back together?

1:23.2

So his changes, he was much more communicative. He was able to tell me what he liked and didn't like.

1:33.0

He was able to tell me what he needed and didn't need.

1:37.2

And he was attentive and kind.

1:45.6

And where were you that you saw these changes? Were you dating? Were you shacking up?

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