Should I Forgive and Forget?

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Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Should Mary forgive her nieces for cutting her off or refuse their request to reconnect? 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 downloading my call of the day podcast.
0:03.5	You too can participate in my live radio program heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM. Triumph 111.
0:12.9	Mary, welcome to the program.
0:16.9	Hi, Dr. Laura. How are you?
0:19.3	Good.
0:21.2	What can I help you with?
0:24.5	Okay, so about two years ago, my niece is, my sister moved to, we live in New York, and my sister moved to Florida, and living her life, happy for her.
0:41.3	My niece is, weren't happy about it, but we talked and whatever. And then suddenly they disassociated themselves from myself being their aunt.
0:48.3	I have four children, my children, my mother, my sister also, all disassociated from the family. I did reach out
0:57.3	and nobody responded to me. And I kept reaching out. After a while, I felt like I wasn't taking
1:04.0	a hint, so I stopped. And then recently, about the beginning of the week, one of my nieces
1:10.5	reached out was my mother's
1:11.9	85th birthday, and they reached out to find out why they couldn't get a hold of my mother.
1:17.8	My mother's got dementia, whole situation there.
1:21.6	Okay, you do understand, you do understand that this, you do understand that this is not reaching out to you.
1:31.2	They reached out to my mother and then reached out to me because they couldn't get a hold of my mother.
1:35.4	Let me try it again.
1:38.3	Okay, I'm going to put this right here now.
1:41.9	They're not reaching out for a relationship with you.
1:45.1	They wanted information.
1:46.5	Okay.
1:47.1	Don't take it personally.
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