My Elderly Dad is Difficult

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Susan's dad is a curmudgeon who she doesn't like to be around, but, so far, she hasn't been honest about how she feels. 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 two can participate in my live radio program heard weekdays from two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM triumph 1 11 Susan
0:13.6	Welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call
0:18.5	You're welcome
0:20.5	um
0:22.0	I have elderly parents
0:25.0	In their 80s and one of them and they do not live together. They divorced many years ago, but my father is 88 with visual and
0:35.0	Disabilities and he still lives on his own
0:38.0	And he's in pretty good health except he is blind so I am a nurse and I keep telling him to try each day as best he can
0:47.0	Because you really don't die of a visual disability. He's in pretty good physical health for 88 years old
0:54.6	But I have two other siblings one sibling doesn't really help out with my father and my sister who lives in another state she flies in
1:06.0	Every couple months and she stays for about a week or so and
1:10.2	we
1:11.8	Take care of dad, but dad
1:15.0	Have a very hostile times and he can be very verbally abusive and call you an idiot and use
1:20.8	Prefendity or call you stupid and instead of saying something you
1:26.6	You
1:27.7	Define that please don't talk like that. Please don't yell or I just know one needs to be spoken to like that
1:34.6	So you try not to argue that there has to be some type of line that they don't keep crossing by just respecting with the verbal abuse
1:43.8	so
1:45.6	My sister is more of an enabler and I'm so I'm a nurse
1:49.8	So I'm sort of a tough love kind of girl and this is what we should be doing and
1:55.4	I go back but every time I'm over there
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