My Brother is a Jerk

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🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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How can Cosette avoid feeling provoked by her brother? 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	Cosette, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. I'm so excited to be on right now. Thank you. How can I help? I'm 22 years old. Me and my mom love listening to you.
0:26.5	I listen to you every day after work on my drive home. I was thinking about a couple weeks ago calling you for a completely different reason, but then I just went to a family,
0:41.2	kind of a family vacation back home in California. And a huge fight blew up with my oldest
0:50.4	brother. He's always kind of been not super close with me and not super nice to me or my
0:58.5	other siblings. But recently within the last couple years... What's the age range here? How old is he?
1:04.8	How old are you? And what's in between? I'm 22 and I'm recently married two months ago and he is 27 and is he married?
1:17.9	He is married as well. He has a child on the way.
1:22.7	Well, then, how do we fight with a preggie wife right there? We don't want to upset her.
1:28.0	What happened?
1:29.1	She wasn't there.
1:30.6	So she wasn't there.
1:31.8	And I don't know how far this fight would have gone if she was there.
1:37.8	I don't know because I think she would have been possibly okay with the comments that he was making.
1:44.3	But I think she probably would have respected me enough to tell him to stop.
1:48.8	Was he drinking?
1:50.1	Was this a dinner?
1:51.5	When were these comments made?
1:52.9	What were the circumstances?
1:54.9	We don't drink.
1:56.3	We were just at breakfast.
1:57.4	It was me, my husband, my oldest brother, and my younger brother. So my parents
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