Moving on From Mom

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Michael is trying to stay strong in his decision to disconnect from his dangerous and destructive mother. 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. Michael, welcome to the program.
0:13.8	Hello, Dr. Laura. I feel incredibly, incredibly blessed to be having this conversation with you right now.
0:20.6	So I just want to start by saying thank you.
0:23.7	Thank you.
0:24.0	I am 31 years old going on 32.
0:28.6	I am an executive assistant, type 1 diabetic,
0:33.8	and gay male just to throw some labels out there that may help you understand me.
0:41.4	And the reason I'm calling today is because I have uncertainty about decisions I've made in the past year and if they were the right thing to do.
0:54.9	Okay.
0:56.2	Tell me.
0:59.2	So for the better part of my life, I have felt that I have lived to please everyone around me.
1:13.6	That was the top priority in my decision making with how my decisions would affect others.
1:23.6	And as you can imagine, that hasn't really, that didn't fare well for me.
1:32.9	And so a year ago, I made the decision to make a drastic change to my life and to move to a new city and and stop reaching out to folks with hopes that they would reciprocate the same effort that I give toward them.
2:04.7	Particularly this is for my mother and my sister.
2:11.6	Prior to making my move, I lived with my mom.
2:15.6	We had a very tumultuous relationship that goes back into my childhood.
2:24.4	My mom was a single mom. She chose a bad man that was in and out of prison and not really
2:32.0	part of my life.
2:37.9	I got type 1 diabetes at the age of 10.
2:43.0	My sister was molested.
2:48.3	And so there were a lot of things that I can understand affected her.
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