My Son Is Done With Me

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Mike's son from his first marriage has decided that he no longer wants to be around his dad and stepfamily. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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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	Mike, welcome to the program. on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:13.0	Mike, welcome to the program.
0:15.3	Hi Dr Laura, how are you?
0:17.1	Good, Mike, how can I help?
0:19.4	Yes, I'll keep this quick.
0:21.1	I have a son 25 years old. No no no no no no no no no don no
0:26.3	don't make it quick make it clear clear I need clear okay right. He moved home August 1st, unexpectedly. No job, no motivation. I have a talk with him. He just moved out, got a job, just moved out last week, which is all good.
0:49.0	But now that he's moved out, he's got an attitude towards me like his whole life is being ruined because of
0:57.4	me and so he wants his space he doesn't want to talk to me anymore.
1:04.0	And it had kind of been going on six months prior to that.
1:08.1	But we had a great relationship before that.
1:11.0	So I'm kind of, number one, want to know why this is happening and if there's anything I can do. Of course it's more complicated than that. There's divorce associated with this years ago and I am remarried, been married for six years and there's
1:26.4	five kids.
1:27.4	My wife has three, I have two, and he's the only one that has never really gotten on board from day one kind of 50% into it. So he
1:38.4	told me he doesn't want to talk to me right now and he want some space.
1:47.6	And so I'm like, well, you know, what should I do? Is I just let them go or should I pursue this?
1:49.9	You have no choice, sir.
1:52.4	You have no choice.
1:53.0	no choice.
1:54.0	He has no choice.
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