My Son's Life is Out of Control

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Kimberly's adult son is failing at life, but she doesn't want to give up hope that something will turn around. 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 listening to my call of the day podcast.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM
0:10.0	Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Kimberly, welcome to the program.
0:14.3	Thank you, Dr. Laura.
0:15.5	And this is a real call.
0:18.8	I'm assuming so.
0:21.9	I'm a 66-year-old woman, married to my husband for 40 years.
0:28.2	We have four adult children and been blessed with six grandchildren.
0:33.5	Boy number two, 38, progressively spiraled downward after his daughter was born.
0:44.3	This was during COVID, lost his job.
0:48.5	His personality just went dark.
0:52.0	And we encouraged him with his wife to get help.
0:57.4	And it just, it was, he was, he would not.
1:02.3	He would not.
1:02.9	So how, how does the family pay its bills now?
1:08.4	They divorced over two years after that incident and she was the worker she was the main worker
1:19.0	so he's been divorced for two years how he was able to still live in the house I I don't know, but it had foreclosed,
1:30.4	but he was evicted a week ago.
1:35.9	And in and out with phone calls,
1:39.2	and then I had the last call I got.
1:42.1	Phone calls, meaning he called you?
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