Putting Your Family First

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest problems I've run across in recent years of taking calls on the Dr. Laura Program is of adult, married, (mostly) women who allow themselves to be emotionally drained by their demanding, needy, mentally unstable mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers. Those calls infuriate me. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Listen to all my episodes of Dr. Laura's Deep Dive in your favorite podcast app.
0:07.0	Search for Dr. Laura's Deep Dive podcast and follow my Deep Dive today.
0:17.0	Dr. Laura's Deep dive.
0:20.0	Deep dive. Dr. Laura's Deep Dive, Deep Dive, Dr. Laura's Deep Dive podcast.
0:27.1	One of the biggest problems I've run across in recent years of taking calls on the Dr.
0:31.8	Laura program is of adult, married, mostly women who allow themselves to be emotionally drained by their demanding, needy,
0:41.4	mentally unstable mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers.
0:47.3	Those calls tick me off.
0:50.3	Listen, once you get married and have kids, it's your moral obligation to make your current family the priority.
0:57.7	You are responsible for your kids and your spouse's well-being, and if your original family members are interfering with that, you have to take action because you made vows, not to your mother, father, uncle, and cousins. As I explained to Lacey when we
1:14.0	spoke, their needs cannot outweigh those of your spouse and your children. They are the ones who
1:20.2	deserve to get the best of you, not just what's left over after you've attended to everyone else.
1:30.3	Lacey, welcome to the program.
1:33.3	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call.
1:36.3	Thank you.
1:38.4	I don't even know where to start. Let me start back a little bit.
1:42.5	My father just passed away from prostate cancer at the end of March.
1:48.6	Had about a five-year battle with it.
1:51.3	And in about the past two years, my husband and I have taken over our family business. And we have, you know, worked to get my dad and my mother moved up to where we live.
2:07.7	They were living in our rental house.
2:11.9	And once, let's see, once my dad started to get really sick, we, my husband quit his job and took over the family business.
2:21.8	I have six-year-old triplets and I have adult grown stepchildren.
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