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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Should I Continue a Relationship With My Family?

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

John's family has a history of mistreating him and lying. He has since distanced himself, but now his father is sick and John is unsure if he should rekindle a relationship with his family or stay away. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday

0:06.7

from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.

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John. Welcome to the program. Hello. Hello, how can I help?

0:17.0

Oh, thank you for taking my call or returning my call. So I had estranged myself from my family about two years ago because they kept a secret

0:26.0

from me for three years. They essentially gave my brother our lake house and you know part of the end of the third year I was paying for

0:35.7

landscaping not knowing that they were paying that they had given it to my

0:40.0

brother so it was basically my brother's lake house I I always stayed in our guest house, which is a two bedroom. So I felt very like, because I had approached them to purchase it off of them a year before that for like $500,000 and they refused it to me. I've always had a problem with my father and I growing up and I don't know like he was in the hospital recently and I went up there for the 10 out of the 14 days he was in there and

1:08.8

One of the days he had said you know your mother had nothing to do with this and I said well she did sign the paperwork and

1:15.7

it's just been difficult and I don't know how to really deal with my family anymore

1:20.4

you know my nephew's even kept secret from me and, you know, I get it. They have to listen to their

1:26.5

father and their grandparents. You know what I mean? Who am I? Just an uncle.

1:31.7

So I don't, I don't know what you'd suggest about a situation like this. I've never been treated equally to my brother. Like my my dogs weren't my mother and father's granddaug until my brother's dog died.

1:45.0

May I, what I have to say isn't going to sound pleasant, appetizing.

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It's wonderful to do.

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But you gotta shrug your shoulders and get on with your life.

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Okay.

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All right.

1:59.0

That's what I kind of figured I had to do.

2:01.0

Yeah. Nothing here for you. There's nothing. There's nothing

2:07.0

there's nothing there for you and it was very nice of you to show compassion to go to the

2:12.1

hospital.

2:13.0

Shows you're a decent person.

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