Parenthood Is Putting a Strain on My Marriage
The Dr. Laura Podcast
Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM
4.6 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live |
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| 0:11.8 | 111. |
| 0:13.0 | Elizabeth, welcome to the program. |
| 0:17.0 | Hi, Dr. Laura, thank you so much for speaking with me today. |
| 0:21.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm calling, I'm, so my husband and I are both physicians, and I actually gave up my job and I'm full |
| 0:30.8 | stay-at-home mom with a one year old and a three year old. |
| 0:35.0 | And I can't express enough how glad I am to be doing that. |
| 0:38.6 | I feel like it's the most wonderful thing in the world. |
| 0:41.4 | But I give you that background because I do know what my husband is going through on his day-to-day basis. |
| 0:47.0 | But I feel like he does have long hours and he comes home and I'm tired from the day he's certainly tired from the day and I'm tired from the day and I I think our |
| 1:00.0 | Exchanges in the evening are just almost robotic. He comes home, he helps me with the one-year-old while I'm doing dinners and all of that and getting, he helps me get them ready for bed and then I feel like at the end of all of that he kind of just always says, |
| 1:15.6 | though I need some time just to veg out and read or do something else. |
| 1:21.8 | And then we do go to bed together and we do have a good |
| 1:27.0 | decent sex life. So I don't think that's as much of an issue, but I just feel like our relationship is getting to be mundane, if that makes sense. |
| 1:40.0 | Yes. |
| 1:42.0 | You know, we have our Girl Scout? |
| 1:45.0 | Yes, I was. |
| 1:47.0 | Okay, remember when they taught us to make fire? |
| 1:51.0 | I sucked at that, by the way, but remember when they taught us to make fire. I sucked at that by the way but remember when they taught us to make |
| 1:53.5 | fire? Yes. We had to find these little itty bitty we've I wasn't able to do it then |
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