To Date or Not to Date?

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🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Gloria is a widow who wonders if dating again is in the cards. 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.
0:11.6	Gloria, welcome to the program.
0:14.5	Thank you.
0:16.5	Hi.
0:17.4	What's up?
0:18.2	Hi.
0:19.4	Well, I'm 79 and I'm a widow, and I started dating.
0:27.6	And my question is this.
0:29.1	I've always been taught from childhood that sex without marriage is a sin.
0:37.8	And it's not that I don't believe that,
0:40.4	but the way the times are now,
0:43.8	I'm in a wonder what to do.
0:46.6	I don't know if to continue dating
0:49.0	and with the thought of what if I do fall in love with someone,
0:54.0	what do I do?
0:56.1	Well, if that's your chosen belief system, then you get married.
1:01.2	Then you have tons of sex if you want it.
1:03.9	There's the problem.
1:06.4	That's the problem.
1:08.0	My husband weighed our retirement, you know, my financial part, is that I have very good
1:19.6	insurance, health insurance, and I have his retirement.
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