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The Dr. Laura Podcast

What Should I Make of This?

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Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Mike isn't sure what it means that his girlfriend told him she wants to go out less frequently, but made plans with a friend right in front of him. 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 downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live

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radio program heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph

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111. Mike welcome to the program.

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Good I have soon,

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I.

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Thank you so much for taking my call.

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You're welcome.

0:20.0

What can I help?

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So, I, well, and I will try to just talk in pieces so that I don't cut you off.

0:28.0

So I'm 60 years old.

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I have a girlfriend that's about seven years younger than me.

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We've been seeing each other for about four years. Our kids are all grown.

0:35.2

We have our own finances and pay for things, but we do a lot of stuff together. We have a really great relationship.

0:42.0

And finances usually doesn't. really does. But because we're her daughter's having a wedding soon. Money is kind

0:48.5

of tight for her. So about a week ago she pulled me aside if we just got back from

0:52.2

dinner and she said hey just

0:54.1

to know just you know my money's really tight right now I'm trying to help with the

0:57.7

the kids wedding and so let's between now and the end of the month I don't have a lot of money for going out that kind of stuff so we just kind of be aware of that

1:07.7

You know just if we can kind of just cool things a little bit between down the end of the month and I'm like, fine, you know, we both are on budgets and also that was fine. Well, two days ago, I'm picking her up at work and a friend of hers, I'm standing right there just waiting for her to get her stuff and a friend of hers, I'm standing right there just waiting for her to get her stuff, and a friend of hers, a girlfriend of her that work says, hey, do you want to go out Monday and get drinks and dinner?

1:29.0

And without even hesitation, she's like, yeah, absolutely, that'd be great and they start

1:33.1

making all these plans to go out and when it she was away from her friend I

1:39.9

simply said you went out of your way to tell me how tight money is or when your friend

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