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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Top Call of the Day Episode: Now I Know Why I've Picked The Wrong Men

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Top Call of the Day Episode: Now I Know Why I've Picked The Wrong Men: This week we're listening to the Top Call of the Day episodes of All-Time!! Rene heard Dr. Laura’s advice to another caller of the program and realized why she's been picking bad men over the good ones. - Dr. Laura: "I was afraid of being thrown away." | 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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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.

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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.

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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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