Refresher: My Husband and I Don't Agree

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🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Linda's husband has asked her to refrain from sharing his cancer diagnosis with anyone, but she really wants to have someone to confide in. 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. Remember, you can hear my live
0:07.0	radio program weekdays 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph, 111.
0:16.2	Linda, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call.
0:21.8	You're welcome.
0:42.3	I'm confused about how to reconcile my husband's wish to keep his cancer diagnosis and treatment private and mine to, I don't know if it's a need or a wish or a desire or what, you know, to tell a close friend or to confide in someone. For example, he had surgery two days ago and I was in the hospital with him. It's a huge medical center.
0:50.3	You know, 10,000 people are there. And I heard my name and it happened to be a friend who I haven't seen for a couple
0:56.1	years, but we were very close, and we'd taken trips together and things.
0:59.6	And she wanted to know why I was there, how things are going, and what do I tell her?
1:04.8	So I confided in her, but I didn't tell him that I confided in her because he doesn't want
1:09.4	anyone to know.
1:10.7	So I don't know.
1:12.3	I don't know how to how to reconcile those things. You have any, well, because I think some
1:20.4	lies are necessary in life. Yeah. He wants this kept under wraps because he thinks there's some magic in that and that if a lot of friends and relatives and neighbors come over and say, poor baby, that that's more dire that he's not going to survive it.
1:41.9	So having a lot of people know makes it more real.
1:46.2	Yeah.
1:47.3	But you have needs too because you're his caretaker and his support system.
1:51.2	And to do that, you don't have infinite ability to be caretaking without filling yourself
1:59.0	back up again.
2:00.6	So if this is a woman, a friend, you can trust.
2:04.6	Mm-hmm.
2:09.0	You need to do that.
2:14.1	Yeah, I mean, it was tough to relieve to me.
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