The Christmas Drunk

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Listen to my Morning Monologue: I’m sharing my take on pressing issues, enlightening research on human behavior, answering questions I get by email, and my favorite, most instructive interactions with callers. Everything you’ll hear is designed to help you become a better spouse, parent, family member, co-worker, friend, and human being. It’s the free therapy you need! Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:30.1	Uh, the quickie.
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0:35.7	Got it right.
0:37.2	My elderly mother, I wonder how old that is, my elderly mother
0:44.2	hosts a family Christmas party at a very fancy club every year. My brother's wife gets drunk
0:52.4	every year at this party. It seems like she either takes a medication
0:57.3	that doesn't mix well with alcohol or is pre-gaming the party. Last year, she was throwing
1:03.8	dinner rolls from our table to an adjacent table. My mother was aghast. My brother acts as if he doesn't notice this behavior. Every year,
1:15.1	she does something obnoxious. We all notice, all 25 of us, but no one knows what to say.
1:24.6	The club requires appropriate to quorum, so we are skating on thin ice.
1:31.2	Please help.
1:37.2	This is written as every year this goes on, and the club hasn't thrown you out, probably, because your mother's an important member and drops a lot of money there.
1:49.6	So can get away with things.
1:52.4	And you say, everybody notices, this sort of reminds me of the movie The Godfather, the first one.
1:59.4	Remember, it's at the wedding party? And one of the
2:05.8	brothers' wives is acting in a very sexually inappropriate way when she's dancing and how
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