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Carol, welcome to the program.

Hello, Dr. Laura. How are you this afternoon?

I'm good. How are you?

I'm very well. Thank you. I just have a question on how to handle my family.

I have four lovely children, 40, 38, 36, and 34, two girls, two boys. I've been married 43 years to my best supportive friend.

Nice.

And, yes.

And, yeah, I'm his girlfriend, and I make him the first priority as he does me.

So we're very blessed.

My parents died early.

I had a dysfunctional childhood.

My dad died when I was 15 and my mom hopped in the grave with him and we buried her 11 years later.

So this was before I was married.

So I am a weak weenie. My husband has toughened me up over the years, and I've always wanted my own little family, my own little empire, since I didn't have that growing up.

Now, they're all grown up. Three out of the four of them have successful careers

to make more money than my husband and I ever did. One is a recovering addict. He's been

cleaned for three and a half years. He's put his life together and doing beautifully. But my

children don't get along. They have these lame excuses they just don't want to be in the same

get together the same house we don't have an extended family my husband's family

well wait a minute when you started having them what was happening between them in early years?

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