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Top Call of the Day Episode: I'm In Trouble With My Stepson And His Wife

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🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Top Call of the Day Episode: I'm In Trouble With My Stepson And His Wife: This week we're listening to the Top Call of the Day episodes of All-Time!! Marsha conveyed to her stepson and his wife that she didn’t want to be a babysitter to their kids and that’s caused a family rift. - Dr. Laura: "Sometimes we just have to eat dirt." | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://family.drlaura.com/pg/jsp/help/general/privacypolicy.jsp for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.

0:03.8

Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.

0:09.6

Marsha, welcome to the program.

0:12.4

Thank you, Dr. Laura.

0:14.4

Sure. I'm trying to figure out how to make this simplistic when I was talking to the

0:20.3

screener. I think I made it complicated. So I'm trying to weed out information that's

0:26.4

not needed. I've been married to my husband for 10 years, second marriages.

0:32.1

And when I was dating, after my first divorce, I was very adamant. I don't have children,

0:38.7

didn't want to have children, and didn't want to date anyone with young children.

0:46.2

Started dating my husband, and he had grown children, like 20, so no problem.

0:52.4

We've been very kind here. So you thought, go ahead.

1:00.0

We've had a great, you know, good relationship with the son who is married, and they have two

1:06.9

children, eight and ten. A few weeks, well, but last year, the, I'll call her daughter-in-law,

1:15.0

even though she's not really my daughter-in-law. Don't call her daughter-in-law, just say his daughter.

1:20.3

His daughter. Well, no, it's his daughter-in-law. Oh, it's his daughter-in-law. Okay, the wife of the son.

1:27.9

Got it. We'll call her Mary. Thank you. Tell me about Mary. Okay. Mary got a job last year

1:35.4

that it used to work in the school district, and so when she was working the kids were there,

1:39.6

and then they'd go home, no big deal. She got a different job last year, and at that point,

1:45.2

for after school, she was still working with her job. And at that point, the grandma, my husband's

1:57.5

ex volunteered to take care of the kids after school on a daily basis. So they would be picked up

2:04.0

from school by her, and that was the way it's always been. And I would occasionally, they would,

2:12.2

she would ask me if I could take them after school, she had appointments, things like that,

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