Responding to Your Quickies

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🗓️ 6 July 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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"Responding to Your Quickies" - Listen to my Morning Monologue: I’m sharing my take on pressing issues, enlightening research on human behavior, answering questions I get by email, and my favorite, most instructive interactions with callers. Everything you’ll hear is designed to help you become a better spouse, parent, family member, co-worker, friend, and human being. It’s the free therapy you need! • Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:28.5	I want to answer a few quickies.
0:32.7	A quickie is a short question, but you send in and I answer without us chatting.
0:40.2	Okay.
0:41.3	And to send a quickie, it's quickie at Dr. Laura.com.
0:46.7	Quickie at Dr. Laura.com.
0:49.4	My nephew and his girlfriend, both in their mid-twenties, are shacking up and now pregnant.
0:59.2	Her due date is August, and there are no plans to wed.
1:05.3	I was invited to the baby shower.
1:08.4	I am so annoyed with their decisions that I wonder if it would be appropriate
1:14.3	to gift them each the ten stupid things women do to mess up their lives or the ten stupid
1:21.0	things men do to mess up their lives for a shower gift. Or has that ship sailed at this point? Thanks for all you do.
1:34.0	If there's a baby shower, that means there are a whole lot of women in the family who are going,
1:38.2	oh goody, oh goody, there's a baby and we're going to have a shower and get to eat and drink.
1:42.3	Yeah, so why bother? It's not as though anybody came to you
1:48.6	for advice, you know, and asked your opinion. If it's your nephew, then either your brother
1:54.3	or your sister is dealing with this. And most of the time, especially these days,
2:00.0	parents have given up being leaders in their families.
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