Refresher: My Husband is Getting More Negative With Age

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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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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0:00.0	Time now for a refresher from my Dr. Laura Call of the Day archives. And remember, you two can
0:06.1	participate on my live radio program heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph
0:13.6	111. Susie, welcome to the program. Hello, Dr. Laura. How are you?
0:22.0	Good.
0:22.9	What's happening?
0:24.1	It's just lovely, lovely talking with you.
0:26.6	I have been a fan and a listener forever and ever and ever, and I thank you for your wonderful
0:31.2	advice.
0:32.3	Thank you.
0:33.5	What can I do for you?
0:34.5	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.
0:52.4	So I don't know if that's a part of it with his health or whatever.
0:55.4	But no matter, whenever we get into conversation, he just throws back a lot of negative.
1:01.4	Things like if I say, it's a lovely day, he'll say, yeah, but it's too hot and it's windy.
1:06.6	Or so-and-so was so, you know, we had a wonderful time.
1:09.5	Slow down, slow down, slow down, please. Slow down, please.
1:14.0	I'm sorry. Okay. Let's go through those things. You say it's a lovely day, which is kind of a
1:20.0	boring thing to say to your husband, but it's a lovely day. And he says, yeah, but it's windy. And what
1:26.1	else? And it's too warm. And you go, windy and
1:29.1	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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