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The Dr. Laura Podcast

My Cousin Wants To Speak To Me - Part 1

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🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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My Cousin Wants To Speak To Me - Part 1: Melissa’s bad cousin is reaching out to her after they parted ways seven years ago. - Dr. Laura: "Just ask her what she wants." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://family.drlaura.com/pg/jsp/help/general/privacypolicy.jsp for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.

0:03.8

Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.

0:09.9

Melissa, welcome to the program.

0:12.5

Hi Dr. Laura, thank you so much for taking my call. It's very shocked.

0:17.2

Thank you.

0:19.0

Welcome.

0:20.5

Thank you.

0:21.9

So my simple question today is,

0:26.2

should I meet with my cousin who I have not seen or spoken to in about seven or eight years?

0:34.2

To discuss, I don't know what my initial gut is that I don't want to see her.

0:39.9

I put things in the past.

0:41.4

She'll be there.

0:43.4

The short background of the story is that we grew up being very, very close close to sisters.

0:50.0

I'm going to only child.

0:52.7

Got married.

0:53.7

She married one of our best friends.

0:55.6

We had kids around the same time, both of us had multiples.

0:59.6

Pregnance the same time.

1:02.1

Very, very close.

1:04.9

Through the years we did start getting a little distant and lived about an hour apart,

1:08.3

but we start getting distant, not as many phone calls and not as many things happening.

1:14.2

She was making some judgments, I guess, that I didn't agree with or decisions and being

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