Refresher: Did Heather do the wrong thing by telling off her sister?

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; after seeing her brother-in-law hurt her nephew, Heather stepped in and now her sister will no longer let Heather see the kids. What should Heather do? Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Time now for a refresher from my Dr. Laura Call of the Day archives.
0:04.7	Remember, you can hear my live radio program weekdays 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph,
0:13.0	111.
0:16.2	Heather, welcome to the program.
0:18.8	Hello.
0:20.0	Hi. What can I do for you?
0:22.7	I need to know that I did the right thing.
0:28.5	My sister, who's going into a second marriage, is marrying a man that is emotionally abusive to my niece and nephews.
0:43.4	And what does he do that you can see is emotionally abusive? What have you seen?
0:50.0	Well, the last thing that was the straw, my nephew, he's a handful, and I will admit that,
0:59.5	but he's four. And he had gotten in trouble at daycare. So he took him to a little river thing with a bridge and made him get out and told them
1:16.3	because he can't behave that he has to live there where the monsters are and where it gets cold.
1:24.4	They walked back towards his truck and my nephew then ran after him and was telling him that
1:33.7	he was sorry.
1:37.5	And when I found out that happened, that was kind of the last straw that I couldn't do anymore.
1:42.3	I couldn't pretend like it wasn't happening. And I confronted my sister.
1:47.0	And what happened? And she said that we can't see my niece and nephews anymore.
1:55.0	Because if she, if we think that she would allow somebody to hurt them, then she doesn't have a place for me in her life.
2:10.2	Well, what did you say about what he did?
2:14.2	That people just do things to their kids.
2:17.5	But he didn't mean to hurt them.
2:20.5	Well, your daughter...
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