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The Dr. Laura Podcast

My Granddaughter's World is Falling Apart

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Ever since Mike's grandson drowned in a backyard pool, his son and daughter-in-law have not provided a stable and safe home for their surviving child. 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. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious xm triumph 111.

0:11.0

Mike welcome to the program. Hello? Hello, Mike. What can I do for you?

0:19.4

Well, I'm a 54-year-old father and grandfather, two grown kids.

0:27.0

And my son is 31 who's married and used to have two kids but their two-year-old son, my grandson, he

0:39.7

drowned in their backyard pool almost a year ago.

0:43.0

Oh no.

0:44.0

Oh no.

0:45.0

And you know.

0:48.0

And so there's also, so there's obvious grief among the family but there's also blame because of you know who

0:58.8

wasn't watching her and different things that happened but who was Well, who was supposed to be there?

1:03.6

I mean, what's the background on this?

1:05.6

Well, essentially her mom, her mom was watching, I'll just say all the kids because there

1:11.9

was cousins over there and basically, you know,

1:18.0

her mom was watching her and then or watching them and then next thing you know he was outside and climbed at the pool ladder and

1:26.6

and drowned. They couldn't find him for a while. But my daughter-in-law finally found him floating in the pool.

1:34.0

But, so moving forward, so, yeah, so moving forward, my daughter-in-law, you know, still has yet to talk to her mom, but, you know, that's kind of like that little symptoms.

1:50.0

So the blessings are we still have a, you know, I still have a four-year-old beautiful granddaughter, almost going to be turning five.

1:59.0

Other blessings are my son and my daughter-in-law and my granddaughter. They've gone to

2:05.8

church. They've becoming active in the church, you know, active in the community.

2:11.7

But the bad things, basically about a month and a half ago, when I went to go see them, she said she wanted a divorce.

2:21.0

And this was after they went on a marriage retreat

2:23.8

and learned her love languages.

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