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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Now I Know Why I’ve Picked The Wrong Men

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Now I Know Why I’ve Picked The Wrong Men: Rene heard Dr. Laura’s advice to another caller of the program and realized why she's been picking bad men over the good ones. - Dr. Laura: "I was afraid of being thrown away." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://family.drlaura.com/pg/jsp/help/general/privacypolicy.jsp for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.

0:03.8

Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.

0:09.9

Renee, welcome to the program.

0:12.2

Hi, Dr. Laura.

0:14.4

Hi, Renee. Good. What can I do for you?

0:18.1

You know, you had the caller about two weeks ago

0:21.9

and the just of the call was that she was an inhabitive choosing bad men.

0:28.4

And you walked her through an exercise and the exercise was think back on the good ones that you threw away.

0:35.7

And I did this exercise even though the caller didn't embrace it, I did.

0:41.3

And I want to let you know that it was so insightful and I grew like 30 years, even though I'm 59,

0:50.5

I grew 30 years on that call.

0:53.5

The reason why is that I realized that when I threw away the good ones and the girl said,

1:00.5

they were nice, you know, I said the same thing.

1:04.3

But then you said think back farther on what was traumatic.

1:09.3

And I thought that farther and I realized that at eight years old,

1:14.8

when my parents divorced and she took me to the apartment where dad was going to live with no furniture,

1:21.7

I realized then that you could be loved and loved someone so much because they never bought.

1:28.4

We never knew that this would happen. It was blindsided.

1:32.6

But I realized then that somebody could love you and throw you away.

1:41.7

Even though you loved them so much, they could throw you away.

1:46.6

And I realized then that I never gave a chance to anybody to be vulnerable,

1:53.6

to embrace being vulnerable.

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