My Husband Chooses Friends Over Family

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🗓️ 9 November 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Lynn is tired of her husband's childish need to be included in his friends' activities. 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.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on
0:09.0	Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:11.4	Lynn, welcome to the program.
0:13.4	Thank you, Dr. Lorke.
0:14.7	I'm a little bit nervous, so my voice breaks up.
0:19.1	Please be patient with me.
0:22.0	Sure.
0:22.8	As I was calling Dan, I've been married 39 years to the same husband, first marriage for both.
0:31.3	And I always felt throughout the years that he would put his friends first over family.
0:37.7	For example, this Friday, had made arrangements with our adult son
0:43.1	to go to a festival, a local festival with him, dinner, dancing, whatnot.
0:49.2	This morning he comes up, my husband, all excited, telling me that, guess what, his friend from
0:57.6	years ago called to see if he can go out to dinner. They call it a bachelor dinner. It's a group of
1:04.3	guys without the spouses, go out and just dinner, basically this just dinner, no strip clubs or anything like that, as far as I know.
1:14.5	And he used to do this when he was younger, but he got shunned for some reason.
1:21.4	They stopped inviting him.
1:22.7	I know it hurt him deeply.
1:24.5	He claims he didn't know why they stopped inviting him even though the dinner's continued.
1:31.5	Anyhow, he comes up all excited today telling me that he got invited on Friday of all days,
1:40.6	even though we had these plans and he wants to go.
1:44.4	And it really hurt me deeply that he chose his friends over his family plans that we had made.
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