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🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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John's wife wants to move to be closer to their grandson, but he's not ready to give up the family farm. Searching for advice? 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.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.2	John, welcome to the program.
0:13.4	How are you this morning?
0:15.2	Good.
0:16.6	What's it?
0:17.6	Got a little dilemma here that I have.
0:22.3	Maybe I wanted to kind of get your insight.
0:25.6	Happily married 45 years.
0:29.4	We have an autistic three-year-old grandson, and my daughter and her husband live basically four hours from where we live.
0:44.3	We have 190 acres of family farm and basically the last people alive from our family for this place.
0:56.9	And my wife wants to, of course, move where my grandson is.
1:03.6	And currently she's staying there during the week to pick him up from baby school and during the weeks.
1:14.0	And then she comes home on the weekends.
1:16.0	And, of course, it's wearing her out.
1:18.1	And so she's wanting to move there.
1:20.8	And, of course, I'm not wanting to leave what we have.
1:25.3	Well, then she's got to get some more rest during the week, so the ride back and forth won't tire her out anymore.
1:33.7	Tell her to take more naps, a bit earlier, do some exercise?
1:39.2	I mean, if you're not leaving the farm and she's determined to do this, then we have to help her do it better.
1:45.5	Okay. That sounded too easy.
1:52.0	So help her do it better.
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