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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Refresher: I’m In Trouble With My Stepson And His Wife

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Marsha conveyed to her stepson and his wife that she didn’t want to be a babysitter to their kids and that’s caused a family rift. 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

Marcia, welcome to the program.

0:18.9

Thank you, Dr. Laura.

0:20.8

Sure. I'm trying to figure out how Thank you, Dr. Laura. Sure.

0:21.2

I'm trying to figure out how to make this simplistic when I was talking to the screener.

0:26.6

I think I made it complicated, so I'm trying to weed out information that's not needed.

0:33.9

I've been married to my husband for 10 years, second marriages.

0:38.3

And when I was dating after my first divorce, I was very adamant.

0:42.3

I don't have children, didn't want to have children, and didn't want to date anyone with young children.

0:49.3

I started dating my husband and he had grown children like 20 so no problem um we've been married 10 years so you thought

1:00.0

go ahead true um so we've had a great you know good relationship with the son who is married, and they have two children, eight and ten.

1:15.3

A few weeks, well, but last year, I'll call her daughter-in-law, even though she's not really my daughter-in-law.

1:23.3

Don't call her daughter-in-law. Just say his daughter.

1:26.9

His daughter. Well, no, actually, it's his daughter-in-law. Just say his daughter. His daughter. No, actually it's his daughter-in-law.

1:30.3

Oh, it's his daughter-in-law.

1:32.3

Okay, the wife of the son.

1:33.3

Got it.

1:34.3

We'll call her Mary.

1:35.3

Thank you.

1:36.3

Tell me about Mary.

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