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The Dr. Laura Podcast

My Father-in-Law Is a Big Disappointment

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Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

No matter how she tries, Dawn cannot find a way to get her father-in-law to give her husband and their family the attention she feels they deserve. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - 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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heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 1111.

0:12.4

Dawn, welcome to the program. on Sirius XM Triumph 111.

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Dawn, welcome to the program.

0:15.0

Well, thank you for taking my call Dr. Loyer.

0:18.0

This is my first time ever calling anywhere in, so I'm a cad bit nervous. I am I've been married to my husband for 38 years and he

0:30.1

comes from a divorced family.

0:34.5

His father left him when he was about 14,

0:37.7

them, separated, whatever.

0:39.8

And he continued to raise his two sisters and mom and pay all the bills and do everything.

0:47.3

And then his father married a woman that is his son's age, my husband's age, and then my father-in-law had an

0:57.0

aneurysm and he almost died and so then the family kind of you know rallied

1:01.4

back together and you know they said what it is what it is and they just kind of wanted a relationship with them, but, and then we got married and I came into the picture three or four years later and we have three beautiful daughters and he

1:15.9

went on to have a child with his new wife and they've been together ever since but then

1:21.9

they she brought in a child from a previous relationship and he adopted her and she

1:30.4

went on to college and had children and she's got three very talented children that literally have been

1:39.3

recruited from top 10 colleges in the country, Notre Dame, University of Iowa and so forth.

1:46.0

And in the meantime my father-in-law has been you is 83 now and he's been commuting two or three weekends a month about three hours

1:57.4

one one way to go see these children because they're also talented so he's

2:02.3

been doing it for a considerable amount of time these children play

2:05.0

play basketball, which is pretty cool, and that's fine.

2:11.2

However, I'm married to his son and we don't ever get to see him and he

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