Struggling with an Adult Son’s Relationship Expectations

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🗓️ 10 July 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Sarah is feeling hurt and emotionally affected by her adult son's desire for space and separation. • Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:30.5	Sarah, welcome to the program.
0:33.6	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:34.3	I appreciate having the chance to talk to you.
0:39.5	You're very welcome. What's going on? Hello, can you hear me?
0:42.5	Yes, ma'am, go ahead.
0:43.5	Oh, I'm calling about my relationship with my 34-year-old son.
0:48.7	He, and I can give you as much back story as he need but he didn't he stopped talking to my
0:55.6	husband and I for about five months because no not and because well because my husband it was
1:05.3	after a conversation he had with my husband he had recently lost his job and my husband was asking him if he had with my husband. He had recently lost his job, and my husband was asking him if he had
1:14.6	applied for jobs, what he was doing to find a job, how he was going to support himself. Okay, I'm probably
1:19.5	going to need more background, so let me just flutter around with some questions. Is your husband
1:25.0	his dad? Yes. Okay. And since your son was 17-year-old, tell me what he's
1:34.4	been doing in his life since he was about 17? He went to college and he... majored in what? He majored in what he majored in finance uh he spent what did he plan what did he
1:51.5	plan to do with majoring in finance uh he wanted to go into investment banking okay so then what happened? So he did. He graduated. He got a job in investment banking.
2:09.2	He was there for about a year and a half and then switched to a different company working in the same
2:15.9	city. Why did he switch to a different company?
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