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Dr. Laura Call of the Day

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Protect yourself from a person who causes you heartache, pain and upset, even when they're family. 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. 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	Laura, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Laura, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. So good to hear for, or speak with you.
0:49.1	Hi, second time caller, long time listener. I am my husband's girlfriend and mommy to a very ugly son. So thank you for your altruism. My question today is, do you have any declarative sentence or words of wisdom to de-escalate any potential excitability of my sister's psychobabble commentary?
0:52.3	I've been accused of gaslighting. Yeah, I have an answer.
0:58.1	I have an answer. Okay. Two words. You ready?
1:02.4	You want to write these down? You may forget them. There are two words. You think you could do this?
1:11.6	Yes, ma'am. Minimized contact. Okay. That's it.
1:12.6	There's nothing else that's going to work on your sister.
1:16.6	But for your sanity and your self-respect, minimize contact.
1:23.6	Okay.
1:26.6	Then I have another three-word one. You might want to write these down. Okay.
1:29.3	Then I have another three-word one.
1:30.5	You might want to write these down.
1:33.0	Okay? Minimized contact.
1:38.1	There'll be a multiple choice exam after I'm done.
1:38.6	Okay. And the next one is don't talk.
1:44.0	Listen. Which means one is don't talk listen which means let her babble for a short period of time and don't say a word
1:54.0	you're allowed to go hmm or ah or hmm but you're not allowed to say any words.
2:02.4	This is all for your sanity and your personal feeling of integrity.
2:09.5	No other way I know of.
2:12.2	That doesn't end up in a screaming fight.
2:16.6	Exactly.
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