Our Family Had a Falling Out Over COVID

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🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Our Family Had a Falling Out Over COVID - COVID drove a wedge between Rachel and Bradley's families, but their children want to see their cousins, leaving the parents wondering what to do next. - Dr. Laura: "Be polite and choose peace over a cold war." - Did the pandemic strain your family relationships? Email me your thoughts at: drlaura@drlaura.com | To 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. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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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 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious XM.
0:10.0	Triumph 111 Rachel and Bradley welcome to the program.
0:15.0	Good afternoon Dr. Laura. Rachel my wife. Good afternoon Bradley. Hi Rachel.
0:21.0	Hi Dr. Laura. How old is everybody here?
0:25.0	54. We're both 54. Wow. Okay. And same month. Birthdays on the same month.
0:33.0	No, we're six weeks apart. He's six weeks older, but he was supposed to be born after me. So he was born at 32 weeks. So it would have been the other way around.
0:46.0	That's cute. How long have you guys been together?
0:50.0	21 years. Say it again, please. I didn't hear it clearly. 21 years.
0:56.0	21 years. Okay. Any kids?
1:01.0	We have two kids 11 and eight.
1:05.0	Okay. What can I do for you?
1:08.0	Well, we are. We moved. We moved to the town that we currently live in five years ago because of work.
1:18.0	In this town, my sister and her husband and her three kids live here.
1:24.0	Last year. Rachel reported to me that my sister has been disrespectful to her over the entire time that I've known been with her the over the entire 21 years.
1:38.0	And then there was an incident last year where my brother-amaw was bullying and berating Rachel regarding some COVID issues or whatever.
1:49.0	And not whatever, but the issue was not it's not important what the COVID specific COVID issue is. It's just that he was bullying and disrespectful to her.
2:02.0	I don't know what you mean by.
2:14.0	What is if you haven't had interaction with them in a year, they've not been part of your kids live. So what is it you concerned about?
2:30.0	I think well, it's only been within the last six to eight months that you know with the COVID kind of relaxing a little bit that there's been more activities.
2:42.0	You know, there's school plays. There's that that are now being put on that we're not put on.
2:48.0	What does this have to do with your families? I mean, if school plays are going on, there are a lot of kids besides those kids.
2:56.0	What is it you concerned about? I'm not getting it yet.
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