Some Moms Give Life and Not Much More

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Jennifer can't understand why her mother doesn't want to be part of her life the way Jennifer is with her own children. 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 radio program Monday through
0:06.3	Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11th. Jennifer, welcome to the program.
0:13.6	Thank you, Dr. Laura, long-time listener, first-time caller. You're welcome. My question,
0:19.6	my question for you, I'm sorry, I'm so nervous, is should I just cut my losses with my mother and just stop trying to reach out? I haven't spoke with her since June.
0:32.9	Because, many years. Because?
0:35.0	The situation that happened was I hadn't seen her in two years.
0:39.8	She was up from Florida in Massachusetts.
0:42.3	I live in New Hampshire.
0:43.8	And I was trying to get down there to visit her.
0:46.9	My busy season is summertime.
0:49.5	So I had a day that I could go down.
0:51.5	And she kept saying, no, don't bother.
1:10.9	You know, Papa has an appointment, et cetera. So I said, well, I'll drive down and I can, she didn't want to drive over the bridge onto the Cape. So I said, I'll drive down and I'll take both of you. So she's like, well, I don't know. So she calls me back and says, yes, drive down, you can take him over the bridge. You know that I don't like to go over the bridge and I know she doesn't so it's really freaks her
1:15.7	out and she gets scared so I said okay so I drove down three hours to get there take
1:20.1	my elderly grandfather who's 94 to his appointment and my aunt calls me and says
1:26.4	is your mom with you and I I said no. She's like,
1:29.7	well, she's on the cape. She had drove over the bridge after I left the house at my grandfather's house
1:35.0	to someplace on the bridge. So I'm like, where what? So I'm looking at the 360 app and I'm like,
1:42.5	she's not only on the cape. She's further on the cape than I am. So I'm looking at the 360 app and I'm like, she's not only on the cape, she's further on the
1:44.8	cape than I am.
1:46.5	So I was only at the house for like half an hour when I was loading up my grandfather and
1:50.9	his oxygen and everything.
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