This House is Not a Home

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Jennifer wants to move away from the house that holds painful memories of her daughter who died of leukemia. Searching for advice? 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.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Jennifer, welcome to the program.
0:13.7	Hello, Dr. Larry. How are you?
0:16.2	Good. Thank you. What's up?
0:20.0	Just to give you some backstory, I've been married to my husband for 23 years.
0:25.3	It took us a long time to get pregnant, but we finally did. We were married for seven years when I got pregnant.
0:32.3	And then when my daughter was five years old, she died of complications of leukemia.
0:38.3	And that was about 15 years ago.
0:42.3	I made the decision to take her off life support and let her go peacefully.
0:47.3	So the issue I'm having now is me and my husband own owned our home that we bought when I was pregnant with her.
0:57.8	And we've been living there for 15 years now.
1:02.6	I want to sell this house.
1:05.1	I've wanted to sell this house for years.
1:08.4	And he does not want to.
1:11.2	And to me, this house represents everything that I don't have or that I can't have anymore.
1:18.2	We got it.
1:19.2	We bought the house to raise a family to do all those things.
1:23.6	And to me, it's a constant reminder of what I don't have.
1:28.3	And understanding how a grieving parent feels,
1:32.3	I understand how my husband feels.
1:34.3	And I understand his desire to hold on to the house and the memories and all those things.
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