Should I Stop Dating?

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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What should Kelly say to her adult stepdaughter who doesn't approve of her dating? 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 from two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM triumph 11.
0:11.0	Kelly, welcome to the program.
0:14.0	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you so much for taking my call.
0:18.0	You're welcome.
0:19.0	I have a dilemma.
0:22.0	My husband passed the COVID in late 2021. I have three adults, daughters, 37, 36, and 22. There's a big gap there.
0:34.0	The 22 year old being my husband and the other two from a prior marriage.
0:39.0	They are their adults out at the home, of course, but their families are their own as a state.
0:44.0	The 22 year old was recently graduated from college. In the meantime, my figure is I would be a spencer and I love my husband very much.
0:54.0	It was a very hard loss.
0:57.0	If I've recently met someone that I've been seeing while she's in college, but she says graduate didn't move home.
1:03.0	She is having issue with the new gentleman in my life. I don't know the right boundaries.
1:11.0	Okay, what place? Stop, stop, stop, stop. Don't immediately go into hitting yourself. I don't know what I should be doing.
1:20.0	What can I do? This is your home. She's an adult. It's your life. That answers most of your questions.
1:25.0	Number two, however, are you behaving in a way that's offensive for the values that you brought her up with?
1:34.0	Absolutely not.
1:36.0	I didn't ask you, you astound. On no planet do you have to accommodate to her?
1:46.0	Wow. Okay.
1:51.0	None.
1:53.0	That's a revelation.
1:56.0	None. She wouldn't accommodate to you if she found some stud you liked. Give me a break here. You're both adults.
2:05.0	Yes.
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