My Marriage Has Hit a Rut

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🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Rini’s marriage has hit a rut. Now, she’s caught between the weight of what the relationship used to be and the uncertainty of what it has become, unsure if there’s a way back—or if she even knows how to start trying. 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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0:29.8	Rini, welcome to the program.
0:33.0	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:34.3	Thank you for taking my call.
0:36.1	How are you today?
0:40.0	I'm wonderful. How are you?
0:57.4	I'm good. Thank you so much. I just need your help on maybe how to word things properly in like talking to my husband because I think I may have a tone of, oh, you don't do this for me anymore kind of thing. So we used to go out every Friday for lunch.
1:08.6	We don't have children. It's just me and him.
1:11.2	We've been married 40 years.
1:13.5	And we used to go out every Friday for lunch.
1:16.8	And that would be like our special day.
1:20.8	And we have a marriage where he can do whatever he wants in terms of being with the boys. I can do whatever I want in terms of being with the boys.
1:27.9	I can do whatever I want in terms of being with my girls.
1:33.0	And I just have noticed lately that sometimes I ask him and I say,
1:40.4	can you play hooky with me today and let's go see a movie?
1:50.4	And he finds excuses. Work is usually the excuse, but if it's for his homies, he has the time. And I have a tendency to say, well, it's for your homies.
2:01.5	You make the time.
2:02.6	But if it's for me, you never have time to do that for me anymore.
2:06.8	So what's a better way of me saying that so I don't put him on the defensive?
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