Should I Apologize to My Kids?

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Adam realizes that divorcing was harmful to his kids and wonders if he should have a heart-to-heart with them and apologize for destroying their home. 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	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live
0:04.7	radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM
0:09.9	Triumph 111. Adam, welcome to the program.
0:13.0	Hi, Dr. Laura, thank you for taking my call.
0:16.0	I am wondering if it would be a benefit to my daughters who are 1914 to apologize to them for a divorce.
0:25.0	What do you need to...
0:27.0	Wait, wait, wait, what specifically have you done
0:30.9	that you believe you should take responsibility for?
0:33.0	Leaving because I was unhappy and listening to your show for the last seven years,
0:40.0	we've been divorced, eight years, I now know that my happiness did not come before
0:44.9	theirs, but I put it before theirs. They are good in school, no behavioral
0:52.0	problems, no nothing. I just wonder if it would be a benefit to them,
0:55.8	to sit them down and talk to them now that they are older, if it would help them progress through their life I guess for lack of a way to put it.
1:06.0	Yeah, it was very well put and the answer is absolutely because they learned from you that precipitously for no really significant reason the man will just bail out on you and your kids.
1:20.0	Okay.
1:22.0	So for you to sit down with them and say, I can't believe how selfish.
1:27.0	And to explain it all out in great detail.
1:31.0	And I want to apologize. and I want you to understand that I know what I did
1:36.0	was wrong and centered on myself and there were probably things I could have done to make the
1:41.1	situation better but I bailed.
1:45.0	And I know that hurt you, and that certainly damaged your view of men and marriage.
1:51.0	So I'd like our communication to be open so you can just yell at me, talk to me, tell
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