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The Dr. Laura Podcast

My Sister Failed To Help When I Needed Her Most

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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My Sister Failed To Help When I Needed Her Most: Lindy feels hurt that her sister didn’t race to assist her after losing a home during the brush fires that ravaged her town. - Dr. Laura: "Reality checks are usually not pretty…still they’re the truth." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://family.drlaura.com/pg/jsp/help/general/privacypolicy.jsp for privacy information.

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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.

0:09.9

Wendy, welcome to the program.

0:11.9

Hi, Dr. Laura.

0:13.9

Hi.

0:14.9

I was wondering if you could help me try to understand the situation that I'm hurting my heart right now.

0:20.1

Okay.

0:21.1

About a little over a year ago, my family and I, my husband and my teenage daughter were part of that fire

0:29.0

in Northern California that campfire in parallel.

0:31.6

Oh, yeah.

0:32.6

Oh my God.

0:33.6

Yeah.

0:34.6

And we lost our home and everything.

0:38.8

And but prior to that, I have an older sister.

0:42.2

I actually have two that I'm close to.

0:44.2

But the one I'm having issues with, we were like best friends, talked all the time, shared

0:50.6

intimate things, you know, we were more than sisters.

0:55.0

Then the fire happened and I know I was wrong because that expectations.

1:00.4

You know, I was hoping that she was just before Thanksgiving and I was hoping that she would say,

1:05.4

Hey, you know, get in your car, get down here and come visit us.

1:09.2

We're about seven hours away from them and, you know, get down here and spend family time with us.

1:14.8

Or, you know, maybe they come and see us.

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