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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Gabriella is sad and depressed because her son has moved across the country. Searching for advice? 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 downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:12.4	O'Briella, welcome to the program. on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:13.0	Abriella, welcome to the program.
0:15.0	Hi, Dr Laura, thank you for taking my call.
0:19.0	I decided to call today because I have a 28 year old son who left my house, our house.
0:30.5	I'm married 33 years. About 10 years ago, he went to college, moved away to another city,
0:37.0	finished his college, came back home, and got a job in the other side of the United States.
0:47.0	I see him often at least four times a year he comes home and spends two three four weeks with
0:59.1	with me and his father my issue is and this is the reason why I'm calling is every time he comes and goes I go through a
1:10.9	period of time where I'm extremely depressed. I'm very sad and I'm
1:20.2	I'm at the point out. What are you sad about? What are you sad about? I'm sad that I don't get to see him every day.
1:27.0	Well he's a grown man. You have the expectation of seeing a grown man every day?
1:34.0	What else is in your...
1:37.0	Honey, something's missing in your life.
1:39.0	What is it?
1:50.3	It may be social connections that we his father and I don't have very many friends our families very small. And everybody's...
1:54.0	Why do you have no friends?
1:56.0	Why?
1:57.0	Takes effort to actually have no friends.
2:02.0	That takes work. How do you do that I know well I
2:05.8	don't have some friends but these are not the kinds of friends that you know that
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