My Daughter Wants to Live on Her Own

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Elizabeth worries about her college-aged daughter staying behind while the rest of the family moves to a new state. 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. Elizabeth, welcome to the program.
0:15.0	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call. You're welcome. What can I do for you? So my husband, I currently live in
0:26.3	Virginia, and we have a daughter who is attending community college here, and we're, or he is in the military and we have new orders back down
0:41.8	to Florida where we're from.
0:45.8	And I was wanting my daughter to relocate with us, but she wants to stay up here and continue her college, and she eventually just
0:58.9	wants, I mean, she wants to live here, but I'm concerned.
1:04.4	Okay, before you go into the motherly, I'm concerned routine.
1:08.3	Right.
1:08.9	Hold that.
1:09.8	Hold that.
1:10.4	I get that. I'm teen times in three hours, so I'm concerned. Right. Hold that. I get that.
1:11.6	I'm teen times in three hours, so I'm concerned.
1:15.6	So what is she studying?
1:17.7	Is she actually going to school with a purpose, or are she going to school?
1:22.3	She's going with a purpose.
1:23.9	She wants to get her major in early education and eventually possibly further that into like her
1:37.7	master's degree where she wants to continue with an education with what does she want to actually
1:43.7	do for a living with the degrees
1:46.3	either be a well one of the things that she's in she wants to be a pathologist or even go into
1:56.4	where um she would get a master so she could be a librarian.
2:01.4	Yeah.
2:06.5	In other words, your daughter is very young and has no clue as to what she wants to do.
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