My Stepmom is a Problem

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Mikayla's relationship with her father has suffered tremendously since he married her stepmother 17 years ago. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - 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 listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM triumph 11.
0:11.0	Michaela, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call. Thank you.
0:18.0	I was just this I saw your Instagram post that said you can't heal from what you want to accept. So I've been working hard to accept things that I really don't want to and one of those things is that I really have a very strange relationship with my dad because of my stepmom.
0:41.0	They've been married for 17 years. They're not married a year after my parents got divorced and she said she never wanted to marry a guy with kids.
0:55.0	And I think she meant it and she married him anyways, but I think she really is resentful that he had kids.
1:02.0	Especially claims of his own treats us out their own, which he never does. My step sister is it's almost like a fairy tale where she gets everything the best of everything.
1:15.0	And they even lie to us about how much they pay for and take care of her.
1:20.0	And it was actually so painful for me growing up that I talked to my dad about it several times and he just gave me a hug and said sorry and didn't do anything.
1:33.0	And so I moved away from home.
1:36.0	And I just moved back a year ago and I really loved having a relationship with my dad again, but my stepmom keeps getting in the way she when we first moved.
1:50.0	Okay, could you stop for a minute? Could you stop for a minute? Yeah. Good.
1:57.0	Your dad could be making other choices. She can't stop him.
2:05.0	He traded you in for her. Yeah, again, she can't stop him. He traded you in for her and nothing has changed.
2:18.0	I don't know what that means.
2:21.0	I agree with you that I felt like that.
2:26.0	You have spent this entire call up to now blaming her. He married her knowing her sentiment. He continued staying married to her when he saw what she was doing.
2:37.0	He traded you in for her. You're not absorbing that yet right now. You're not.
2:44.0	Because you don't want to. I don't blame you, but you don't want to.
2:49.0	I can still have some sort of relationship with my dad.
2:56.0	Some sort of. Yeah. Some sort of not the one you want. Not the one you ought to have, but what's left over.
3:09.0	That's all. If you can be good with that, then when she gives him permission,
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