My Dad is Ready to Be a Father

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Lauren's dad left their family when she was young, but now that he's in his 70s, he is yearning to reconnect. 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.
0:11.4	Lauren, welcome to the program.
0:13.9	Hi, thank you for taking my call.
0:16.2	Hi.
0:16.5	So my dilemma is I have not had a relationship with my dad.
0:22.2	And since I was a young girl, five, he left my mom and us four kids when we were very young.
0:31.2	Never made me child support, never really did anything.
0:34.2	It was just a shit bum, if you will.
0:38.0	And over the years, I have seen him here or there in situations because I have stayed in touch
0:48.6	with his family.
0:51.4	I did stay in touch with my grandparents.
0:53.5	They are not both deceased, and I still do see his, um,
0:57.0	siblings, which are my aunts and uncles. They don't have anything to do with him either other
1:01.7	than one of my aunts does, but they don't see each other often. So what he's done is recently,
1:08.3	um, he, he's been married multiple times and um he's had his new wife send me a letter
1:18.6	stating she would like me to um give him another chance feelingly so important um if i could just find
1:27.3	it yeah yeah yeah that's very funny thank you for laughing she's wife number one family so important if I could just find it.
1:28.5	Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's very funny.
1:29.8	Thank you for laughing.
1:30.3	She's wife number one.
1:31.6	I don't even know at this point.
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