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Dr. Laura Call of the Day

My Son's Life is Out of Control

Dr. Laura Call of the Day

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.46K 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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