My Husband Won't Let Me Raise My Kids My Way

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Layah says her husband and his parents undermine her parenting and belittle her to her own children. Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:26.4	Leah, welcome to the program.
0:29.3	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:30.1	Thank you for taking my call.
0:32.3	Thank you.
0:32.8	I listen to you.
0:33.6	Can I help you with you?
0:35.4	Yeah, I listen to you as a teenager and I was probably not with full attention back then,
0:41.5	but I definitely listened to you more with attention now that I'm 41.
0:48.4	By the time I was 24, like, yes, I was young, but I didn't go into marriage blind,
0:53.4	probably because I did listen to you with my mom.
0:56.5	And I, you know, studied child development later, and she said 18 to 24 is the last plane of development.
1:03.4	So I think I made it just in time to hopefully be fully grown.
1:08.1	But I was still pretty young. I dated my husband for a year before
1:13.3	he proposed. I was a virgin the entire time. I thought I did my due diligence getting to know him
1:19.1	and his family. We discussed how many kids we wanted and everything. I wasn't a perfect life,
1:24.9	but I was a wife who like like, barely ever nagged again.
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