Refresher: How can Emma help her siblings?

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Emma has escaped the clutches of her emotionally abusive mother, but her siblings, who still live at home, have not. Is there anything Emma can do for them? 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, 111.
0:16.3	Emma, welcome to the program.
0:19.0	Hello, thank you for me on.
0:21.5	You're welcome.
0:22.4	What can I help you with?
0:24.7	So, thank you for putting me on hold because it is a whole lot.
0:30.5	And, but...
0:32.6	Well, let's dive into it.
0:34.4	One of the things you said is I'm a new Christian,
0:36.8	so I need to know what that
0:38.5	means to you. To me, I just found, you know, the love that I wasn't always given as a child.
0:52.1	And I'm sorry, and so it it just it's a whole new it's the security it's just it's just
1:02.0	wonderful it is not of this world and it's just really helps me a lot but with that you know
1:07.8	it is it is an intense life-changing event.
1:12.4	And it's had to, I've had to, you know, ask a lot of the relationships I'm in is whether or not they breathe life or they breathe death.
1:21.8	And sadly, I've come to the realization that my relationship with my mom or really lack of relationship,
1:31.2	it hurts me every day. And I, you know, I dive into scripture a lot, and I, and I have a wonderful
1:38.1	boyfriend who's going to be, I know he's going to be my fiance soon, but he deserves so much more than, you know, me coming to him with these issues.
1:50.1	And so I just, I need to know if it's okay to, you know, distance myself from my mom and then, you know, come back to her later because
2:04.1	when I see my mom and my mom is just really quick, my mom was married to my father.
2:11.9	It's still married to my father, but throughout my life I've never really thought about her
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