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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Parenthood Is Putting a Strain on My Marriage

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Laura helps Elizabeth take a first step towards rekindling the closeness in her marriage, which has faded since the couple became parents. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - 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.

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Elizabeth, welcome to the program.

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Hi, Dr. Laura, thank you so much for speaking with me today.

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Thank you.

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I'm calling, I'm, so my husband and I are both physicians, and I actually gave up my job and I'm full

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stay-at-home mom with a one year old and a three year old.

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And I can't express enough how glad I am to be doing that.

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I feel like it's the most wonderful thing in the world.

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But I give you that background because I do know what my husband is going through on his day-to-day basis.

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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

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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,

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though I need some time just to veg out and read or do something else.

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And then we do go to bed together and we do have a good

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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.

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Yes.

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You know, we have our Girl Scout?

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Yes, I was.

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Okay, remember when they taught us to make fire?

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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

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fire? Yes. We had to find these little itty bitty we've I wasn't able to do it then

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