My Son is Money-grubbing

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🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Susie can't believe that her son is allowing their disagreements about money to drive a wedge between them. 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. Susie, welcome to the program.
0:15.3	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call.
0:18.7	Thank you. I have a dilemma, a question. We pulled the trigger and did this,
0:25.3	and I was just listening about always, you always have a choice, and there's consequences. You are so
0:31.6	right. And we're facing the consequences right now to our decision my husband and I you can stop for a moment
0:40.2	stop for a moment that's it you don't solve the consequences you endure them there that's where you got
0:51.4	your freedom from you got your freedom to give the answer you wished to give.
0:56.7	The consequence is something you now live with.
0:59.1	You don't try to solve the consequence.
1:03.8	You're right. You are so right.
1:07.8	If somebody's pissed off, let them be pissed off.
1:10.1	If you're feeling bad, feel bad. But that's it. There's
1:13.4	nothing more to do. That's the point. You don't keep agonizing. You made the choice and now you
1:21.4	live with the consequence. Shrug your shoulders and go, I'm willing to pay the price because I didn't
1:27.0	want to do this.
1:30.8	The question is, though, is it was over my son's wedding.
1:37.7	And we had originally, a year and a half ago, when he got engaged, we stepped forward and said we would pay for half the
1:46.1	venue in the rehearsal dinner. Is all of this in an attempt to change my mind?
1:53.4	No. But... Okay, go ahead. Go ahead. Sun's wedding, you said you'd pay half and now what?
2:02.2	Well, the future daughter-in-law ended up, my son got transferred to another state for a job.
2:09.9	The future daughter-in-law quit her job in the state that they had originally lived in and moved down there and they're shacking up.
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