My Mother Uses Me to Get to My Dad

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🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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My mother uses me to get to my dad: Have the courage to let her go.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.
0:03.8	Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.
0:09.8	Amber, welcome to the program.
0:12.8	Hi Dr. Laura, I'm looking for your advice on a situation. My mother is using me as a conduit of
0:22.4	communicating with my dad. They're separated for about 15 years now.
0:28.8	Your mother has no ability to use you to do that.
0:35.7	Okay.
0:38.0	What does that mean? What I just said?
0:41.2	My mother is using me and I say no she's not.
0:46.4	You're volunteering.
0:50.8	Well, I haven't been, sorry, you're volunteering. My mother uses me.
0:57.7	No, you're volunteering. You don't have the courage to say no.
1:02.7	Yeah.
1:04.0	So this is how women get themselves anxiety-ridden, taking meds and depressed, taking meds.
1:11.3	They let themselves get put into situations they don't want to be in, they get angry, frustrated,
1:15.9	they keep them to the cells and they drive themselves nuts. Guys are more likely to say,
1:20.7	screw off. I'm not doing this. Yeah. As I was sitting on hold, I realized this has been happening.
1:27.6	My whole life and one specific situation.
1:31.9	Well, yes, but the specific situation is irrelevant to the bigger problem, which is
1:39.8	that's the only way you feel you can connect and get love from your mother.
1:46.6	I don't know if that's true or not, but that's your belief.
1:49.4	Maybe I haven't put that through, maybe I believe what you're saying.
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