Making a Decision to Stay in a Marriage

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🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Nancy and her husband decided to try marriage counseling. During their last counseling visit, the therapist challenged them to think about if they wanted to stay married. The more Nancy thinks about it, the more unsure she is that she wants to stay married to her husband. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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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
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0:12.4	Nancy, welcome to the program.
0:15.0	Hello?
0:16.0	Hi.
0:18.0	Hello.
0:19.0	Sorry I wasn't sure if you could hear me.
0:21.0	Yes, I can hear you.
0:22.0	So I wanted to call to ask for your advice on something. Basically my
0:27.0	husband and I, we've been married for 13 years. We have four kids. I was married
0:32.4	previously but I was widowed when my kids were
0:34.8	quite small. One was seven months old and the other was two years old and so I got
0:42.0	remarried about three years after that happened, I believe, approximately, to my husband now and I have two other children.
0:50.0	So obviously they all, we live in the same house and everything like that.
0:55.6	But we've been attending marriage counseling because we've been having some marriage problems.
1:00.2	And yesterday on our appointment, the counselor asked each of us to go and think about what we wanted in our
1:05.9	marriage and if we should stay married or not and I guess I just wanted some advice on that.
1:15.0	Advice on what exactly? If I should stay married or not because sometimes I'm not sure.
1:20.0	I don't, I want to do what's best for my kids too so
1:24.8	Well keeping a marriage together is best for the kids
1:29.1	Right, but I guess that's a given we've had a lot of merit. Yeah, my husband works in law enforcement and he unfortunately
1:38.4	used to be a paramedic before and he was diagnosed with PTSD and has been doing therapy and whatnot for it for many years
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