My Wife Won't Let Our Daughter Grow Up

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Don is angry that his wife keeps financing their 30-year-old daughter's life. 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. Dawn, welcome to the program.
0:15.6	Thank you. Thank you. What's happening? We have a daughter, my wife, and I do. She's 30 years old. She's married. They have two kids.
0:31.6	And we gave her partner a paid off card as worked around 20,000.
0:41.0	We gave them $52,000 plus $5,000 to put down payment on the condo in their backyard floods.
0:51.2	And my wife wanted to put $3,000 to $5 thousand dollars into it to help that flooding go away
0:59.2	and i'm sorry are they on welfare are they on welfare are they handicapped i mean what what's the
1:07.7	problem no ma'am what's the problem that? What's the problem then?
1:15.7	Well, started out that they weren't good with their finances.
1:18.7	And so they moved in with us for a while.
1:21.9	And we, my wife. So there's nothing concretely wrong other than they're a bit lazy and not very responsible?
1:29.1	Well, they are.
1:31.4	They're just not good with finances.
1:32.8	My daughter works and her partner works.
1:38.0	I know things are expensive these days.
1:42.2	They just don't have money to do what they're wanting to do.
1:48.0	What are they wanting to do they don't have money for?
1:51.8	Fix that backyard where it doesn't flood when it rains here.
1:58.1	And if we didn't do them all this extra money,
2:00.5	how can I help you? I don't have a sense of this
2:03.6	you know they got married they're not responsible for their own lives
2:08.3	so you guys are coughing up dough all the time okay so how can i and we're getting rid of
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