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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Refresher: My Husband is Getting More Negative With Age

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

From my Call of the Day archives; Susie says it's exhausting living with her husband who seems to constantly find things to complain about and asks Dr. Laura's advice on how to deal with him. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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Time now for a refresher from my Dr. Laura Call of the Day archives. And remember, you two can

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participate on my live radio program heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph

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111. Susie, welcome to the program. Hello, Dr. Laura. How are you?

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Good.

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What's happening?

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It's just lovely, lovely talking with you.

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I have been a fan and a listener forever and ever and ever, and I thank you for your wonderful

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advice.

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Thank you.

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What can I do for you?

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Well, my problem today is that my husband, we're in our 60s, and my husband is very negative.

0:43.4

He's just really become so the last 10 years or so, probably on the edge of he has a history

0:49.7

of neurologic diseases in his family.

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So I don't know if that's a part of it with his health or whatever.

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But no matter, whenever we get into conversation, he just throws back a lot of negative.

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Things like if I say, it's a lovely day, he'll say, yeah, but it's too hot and it's windy.

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Or so-and-so was so, you know, we had a wonderful time.

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Slow down, slow down, slow down, please. Slow down, please.

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I'm sorry. Okay. Let's go through those things. You say it's a lovely day, which is kind of a

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boring thing to say to your husband, but it's a lovely day. And he says, yeah, but it's windy. And what

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else? And it's too warm. And you go, windy and

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hot. You go, yeah, except for that, except for those two things, it's a lovely day. So that's what

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