The Problem With Self Protection

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Dave spent decades protecting his heart and now has no one to spend his golden years with. 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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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day, brought to you by Vibriant Super C serum, the skincare product I use twice a day.
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0:23.4	Yay.
0:24.2	Welcome to the program.
0:25.9	Dr. Laura, thank you.
0:27.4	A long-time listener.
0:28.5	Thank you.
0:28.9	First time caller.
0:30.5	Thank you.
0:32.1	How can I help?
0:34.4	Well, as I was talking to your screener about, long-term relationship to mature adults, I'll give you my age, I'm 65 years old, and been in a relationship now for 11 years, that the love part of it is, or the together part of it is ending due to one of us, not paying attention to the other part.
1:02.0	Okay, don't be vague. Don't be vague with one of us. Okay. Is this a woman or a man we're talking about?
1:09.0	I'm talking about a woman. Did you marry her? I did not marry her, no.
1:16.2	And the reason you didn't marry her is? Because she didn't, she had been married once, and she did not want to get married again, and that type of relationship was agreeable.
1:29.3	Okay, let me go back over that. Let me go back over that. Okay. If you're just sort of
1:35.2	shacking up or hanging up, hanging with each other, let's just have a philosophical discussion.
1:43.2	Okay.
1:44.5	What is required of that?
1:50.0	What is required of that?
1:51.9	Yeah, what is required.
1:54.0	It's like if you get married, certain things are required.
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