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The Dr. Laura Podcast

My Wife Won't Let Our Daughter Grow Up

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

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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