My Kids Won't Come Home for the Holidays

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Carol's four adult children clash and make it hard for the family to get together. 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 Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Carol, welcome to the program.
0:13.7	Hello, Dr. Laura. How are you this afternoon?
0:16.2	I'm good. How are you?
0:18.5	I'm very well. Thank you. I just have a question on how to handle my family.
0:25.7	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.
0:40.3	Nice.
0:40.8	And, yes.
0:43.2	And, yeah, I'm his girlfriend, and I make him the first priority as he does me.
0:48.7	So we're very blessed.
0:50.7	My parents died early.
0:52.9	I had a dysfunctional childhood.
0:55.0	My dad died when I was 15 and my mom hopped in the grave with him and we buried her 11 years later.
1:04.0	So this was before I was married.
1:07.0	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.
1:23.6	Now, they're all grown up. Three out of the four of them have successful careers
1:30.5	to make more money than my husband and I ever did. One is a recovering addict. He's been
1:36.8	cleaned for three and a half years. He's put his life together and doing beautifully. But my
1:42.9	children don't get along. They have these lame excuses they just don't want to be in the same
1:50.6	get together the same house we don't have an extended family my husband's family
1:57.4	well wait a minute when you started having them what was happening between them in early years?
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