My Dad Let Me Down

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Did Chloe make a mistake in reuniting with her alcoholic father? Email questions or comments: [email protected] - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
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0:13.0	Chloe, welcome to the program.
0:15.0	Hi, thank you for taking my call.
0:17.0	Thank you.
0:18.0	What can I help you with?
0:21.0	So I am 28 years old. My mom left my dad when she was pregnant with me. He is an
0:29.6	alcoholic. My sister was, well she's older than me, she's about four to five years old when my mom had left.
0:40.0	My dad was pretty absent through my childhood.
0:44.6	He would call and maybe send gifts here and there.
0:49.7	And we'd visit not very often, but I could probably count on one hand how many times
0:55.6	sorry I'm nervous it wasn't until, I think, probably my early years of college that he was around more.
1:10.9	My sister had a baby and, know we were kind of like established and my mom taught us how to you know take care of ourselves so we were pretty
1:20.4	independent and I think that he felt like he could come around at that
1:25.4	point. I don't know if that's maybe just a coincidence or what but so the past few
1:30.8	years we've been doing Christmas together. We go to my sister's house. My mom's there and he comes as well and he stays at her house for a number of days. So it's been pretty good with him. I kind of just try to, I don't really
1:49.3	expect much from him, but I'm also just happy to have somewhat of a relationship.
1:55.0	But so this last Christmas, he decided to drink for some reason and just made a fool of himself was verbally attacking my
2:09.6	fiance at one point and just kind of picking on everybody just acting like a child.
2:17.0	And the next day I wasn't there but my sister had brought him to the bus stop and said that he was just asking as if nothing happened.
2:28.2	So I just kind of sat on it for a few days and my sister and I had discussed like should we say
2:33.6	something to him about this like do we just let it go what do we do here it's I
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