Living on Broken Glass

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🗓️ 31 May 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Meg is exhausted from spending 15 years navigating an emotionally and verbally abusive marriage while raising three children ages 13, 10, and 8. How much more she can endure? Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:29.9	Meg, welcome to the program.
0:32.4	Thank you, Dr. Laura.
0:33.5	How are you today?
0:35.1	Good.
0:36.0	What can I do for you?
0:39.3	Okay, so obviously this is my first time. I've been listening to you for many, many years as well as my family, so thank you for everything for your advice.
0:44.3	I've been going through, you know, I've been going through quite a bit of, well, healing
0:52.3	childhood trauma throughout, you know, I was 45 when I kind of had a little bit of, well, healing childhood trauma throughout, you know, I was 45 when I kind of had a little
0:58.0	bit of a mental breakdown. And my healing, healing the family trauma has helped me, but I still
1:05.8	have this very tough puzzle piece of my husband that I feel I've gotten rid of so much emotional abuse in my life
1:11.8	and I've healed so much and I finally have peace in my heart. But I'm still struggling with my
1:17.0	husband because I love him. We have a beautiful family, a beautiful lifestyle, beautiful,
1:22.0	beautiful everything in that sense. But he has a temper and an anger issue.
1:28.3	And whenever I kind of try to talk to him,
1:30.5	he'll jump and I feel like a Pac-Man,
1:32.4	like my head's bit off.
1:34.4	And he'll then come down and then we have a beautiful time
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