Refresher: I Haven't Let Go of My Father's Hate

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; At 51, Trisha says she still suffers from the pain of living with an abusive father who belittled her and told her she would never amount to anything. 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. Remember, you can hear my live radio
0:07.4	program weekdays 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph, 111. Tricia, welcome to the program.
0:19.3	Thank you. Thank you. What's up? So I come from what I think is somewhat of an abusive relationship and maybe not the same abuse that you would think of as someone hurting somebody, but more of a verbalized abusive relationship by my father.
0:37.6	Wait a minute.
0:38.2	I'm a little confused by everything you just said.
0:42.3	Okay.
0:43.2	An abusive thing saying, I hate you, I'm going to kill you.
0:50.0	Those are words, but that's abusive.
0:52.5	You're stupid, you're dumb, you're ugly.
0:55.0	Those are words. They're's abusive. You're stupid, you're dumb, you're ugly. Those are words.
0:56.3	Yes.
0:56.6	They're abusive.
0:57.5	Yes.
0:58.2	I mean, so I'm not sure, because you said it wasn't abusive, it was words.
1:04.1	Well, words can be used to abuse.
1:06.1	It wasn't like hitting me.
1:07.7	Yes, he wasn't like, um, hitting me in any sort of way. Dear.
1:11.6	That's physical abuse.
1:14.6	Mm-hmm.
1:16.6	Sure.
1:17.6	Oh, I recognize this abuse.
1:18.6	Absolutely.
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