Reassessing Household Living Arrangements With Adult Daughter

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Benita is seeking clarity and guidance on how to address ongoing challenges related to living with her 36-year-old daughter. The focus is on ending an arrangement of convenience that has become unhealthy and problematic. Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:25.5	and connect with me 24 seven at dr laura dot com benita welcome to the program hi dr laura
0:33.9	hi what's up Can you hear me?
0:37.9	Okay.
0:38.9	Yes, ma'am.
0:40.0	Oh, good.
0:41.1	I've got my head set on.
0:46.0	Okay, so I'm the concern is pretty cut and dry.
0:51.9	I live with my daughter because I'm a truck driver and I was at first never home.
0:55.9	Basically, like, I mean, like maybe quite a month or something. When you say you live with your daughter, is she married with kids and you live in her home?
1:00.3	Is she living in your home?
1:01.7	How does this work?
1:03.9	She has never been married and she lives there with her son in her place.
1:11.4	And I moved in.
1:14.0	I had my own room.
1:16.4	At first, I was paying a third of the rent because it's three bedrooms.
1:21.6	But then she was always struggling.
1:23.4	So, like, I mentioned to somebody like, why don't she just ask me to pay off the rent?
1:26.8	And then soon after she did. And I was like, did you tell her that? And before they didn't. But, uh, so I say half the rent now. And, um, and she hasn't really seemed to have been struggling now that I'm paying half the rent. Um, um, but like, I kind of like, I mean, I can to live in there we all get along there's no problems
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