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Lisa, welcome to the program.

Hi Dr. Laura, it's an honor to speak with you. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited.

Thank you.

I've listened to you for so long and I've never called you and there's so many times that I've

wanted to call you and I've said to myself, no, what would Dr. Laura tell you to do right now?

And then I do that and I don't call you. So thank you so much for that.

So I'm calling you because I wanted to tell you a little bit of a story of my life where I

worked really hard to do what you tell listeners to do, even though my desire was to go against it.

And I just kept my head down and I did what you said to do and you were right.

And what way?

So I married a man, I loved him very much and we had a baby and then I found out that my husband

was cheating on me. And I tolerated it and put up with it and sort of didn't require

a change in the behavior and eventually I just got fed up and I didn't have what it took in

that moment to keep him in the house and do the friendship marriage to keep the family together

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