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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Navigating No Contact with Estranged Adult Stepson Relationships

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🗓️ 26 June 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Michelle is questioning whether maintaining no contact with her estranged stepsons is the best approach. • Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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at Dr.Lora.com. Michelle, welcome to the program. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Laura.

0:32.9

Thank you. What's going on? Well, okay, I have three step sons um I've been married to my

0:40.6

husband for 16 years um he had three stuff you know three obviously children with

0:47.7

the previous marriage he got divorced 10 years later he finds me and I have a little

0:54.0

girl and we end up taking his teenagers

0:57.0

and we treat we treat each other like family. The years go by. There's no contact from

1:04.0

the youngest son. The middle son comes around but he's kind of like, I know he has no wife, he has no kids and he's kind of like, I know, he has no wife, he has no kids, and he's kind of

1:12.5

like aloof to boundaries. You know, we've asked him to call before he comes over. He just comes

1:17.2

over. Um, he's kind of, he's kind of just his own. The youngest son has bought a house, bought a house the same year we bought a house,

1:31.4

no invitation to their house, no coming over, his new girlfriend, a wife, whatever she is,

1:40.7

because the wedding was not even like a real true wedding. It was nobody was invited supposedly his mother wasn't invited I didn't get an

1:49.2

invitation but my husband did so we didn't go we didn't go because we didn't

1:54.9

know exactly what was going on with them what day they were getting married

1:59.6

where they were getting married we thought they were gonna get married in thought they were going to get married in a church. They got married at the courthouse. Nobody was there. Anyway, we hadn't seen them in seven, eight years. All of a sudden they decided to have a baby. So they have a baby. And now they invite us. They want us to come around. You know, they want us to come to the shower. And we didn't, my husband didn't feel very comfortable. He's like, well, I don't want to go. He's like, we'll just send them a gift. We sent them a really, you know, a nice gift, sent them a $300 gift. No thank you. No thank you for what it was. It was a breast bump.

2:35.0

No thank you for what it was because they really didn't know what they got from us.

2:39.0

So then all of a sudden they have the baby and we find out on Facebook that they had this baby, you know, they had the baby.

2:49.0

And I was like, okay, we found out on Facebook that they have a baby and no contact.

2:56.1

So then anyway, they decide to befriend us on Facebook on a social media platform.

3:01.5

And they're showing the baby on the platform.

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