My Husband is Pulling Away

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🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Kate worries that her husband is becoming self-destructive and wonders what, if anything, she can do to help him get his life back on-track. 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.
0:11.4	Kate, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Can you hear me? Yes. How can I help? Okay. Hi. I've been listening to you for many years and first time, long time. So I have
0:29.1	been married for 22 years and we have a 20-year-old son together and we're both in recovery,
0:36.6	both in AA and for a long time, for a long time, both of us.
0:42.4	And recently, maybe, not recently, but maybe in the last year or so, I've been noticing like that my husband is kind of not talking to me the way I should be talked to.
0:58.0	And I, when that happens, I, you know, I look at him and I said, I said, don't talk to you.
1:02.4	What does that mean exactly? Can you give me examples? I don't know what you mean yet.
1:07.7	Yeah. Well, he, he gets frustrated with me and, you know, I told you to do that.
1:15.0	I told, I said the, blah, blah, blah, you know, like, really...
1:20.6	What's in the past year or so, what's increased his anxiety level?
1:25.8	What's going on?
1:27.5	Anything with work?
1:28.7	Anything with sex?
1:30.0	Anything with family?
1:31.8	Anything with health?
1:33.5	What do you think has been particularly stressing him?
1:37.3	I think he's just not going to meetings and he's not working with a sponsor, you know,
1:43.0	and he's a dry drunk.
1:44.8	That's what I think.
1:45.9	But there's problems on every front that you just, you know, that you just mentioned
1:52.6	because he's just not showing up for his life and for his self-care.
1:59.8	And how does he explain not taking care of himself in that way?
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