Top Call of the Day Episode: Now I Know Why I've Picked The Wrong Men
The Dr. Laura Podcast
Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM
4.6 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day. |
| 0:04.0 | Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011. |
| 0:10.0 | Renee, welcome to the program. |
| 0:13.0 | Hi, Dr. Laura. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi, Renee. Good. |
| 0:17.0 | What can I do for you? |
| 0:18.0 | You know, you had the caller about two weeks ago that what, and the, just |
| 0:24.0 | of the call was that she was an ad have a choosing bad men. |
| 0:28.0 | And you walked her through an exercise and the exercise was think back on the good ones that you threw away. |
| 0:35.0 | And I did this exercise even though the caller didn't embrace it, I did. |
| 0:41.0 | And I want to let you know that it was so insightful and I grew like 30 years, |
| 0:49.0 | even though I'm 59, I grew 30 years on that call. |
| 0:53.0 | The reason why is is that I realized that when I threw away the good ones and the girl said, |
| 1:00.0 | they were nice, you know, I said the same thing. |
| 1:04.0 | But then you said think back farther on what was traumatic. |
| 1:09.0 | And I thought that farther and I realized that at eight years old when my parents divorced and she took me to the apartment where dad was. |
| 1:18.0 | And the apartment where dad was going to live with no furniture, I realized then that you could be loved and loved someone so much because they never fought. |
| 1:29.0 | We never knew that this would happen. |
| 1:31.0 | It was blindsided. |
| 1:33.0 | But the, I realized then that somebody could love you and throw you away. |
| 1:42.0 | Even though you love them so much, they could throw you away. |
| 1:47.0 | And I realized then that I never gave a chance to anybody to be vulnerable, to embrace being vulnerable. |
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