Refresher: I Want to Repair Things with My Sister

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Del says that, as an adult, he now understands how unkind his parents were to his sister when they were growing up and feels terrible about how she was treated. 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	And remember, you two can participate on my live radio program heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:16.8	Well, welcome to the program.
0:19.2	Thank you, Dr. Laura.
0:24.6	I hope this, can you hear me okay? Yes, sir.
0:26.6	Okay, thank you.
0:27.6	I have a question.
0:29.6	I appreciate your help.
0:30.6	I actually called you about 20 years ago, and what you said was very helpful.
0:35.6	I must admit, of all the things I listen, I still like
0:39.1	the corny joke Thursday or Friday, what time around Thanksgiving the best. It's kind of become
0:45.9	Cantonous radio for me and my daughter. My question is, I'm 64, my mom is 89 years old.
0:55.0	My father passed away about a year and a half ago, and they've always been at, both of my parents were always at odds with my daughter, with my sister.
1:04.0	For a long time, I bought into that.
1:06.5	I watched my mother go through the same cycle with her mother.
1:09.6	She says she got cancer because her mother treated her so badly but survived it because she, quote, honored her mother for as many years as she was badly treated.
1:18.5	But she's kind of revisited on my sister.
1:21.4	And for a long time, I thought, okay, well, maybe these are issues and maybe I're, I just didn't really think about it so
1:28.2	much from my sister's standpoint. And to be honestly, selfishly enjoyed being the golden boy,
1:34.4	so to speak. And at some point I realized that this is really, really unfair to my sister.
1:40.6	So now I'm in this situation where my mom's alone. She's about four hours away.
1:45.6	Frequently when I visit her, she wants to know what she can do to repair the thing with my
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