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The Dr. Laura Podcast

What Would a Real Man Do?

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Laura educates Dave on how a real man should handle his fiance's unplanned pregnancy. 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. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on serious xm triumph 111.

0:11.0

Dave, welcome to the program.

0:13.0

Hello, nice speaking with you. Good afternoon.

0:17.0

Hello, what can I do for you?

0:20.0

I was calling about me and like fiance just recently found out that she's pregnant.

0:28.6

At least discussing whether we should put off the wedding afterwards.

0:37.0

Okay, in my opinion you should go this weekend to the Justice of the Peace and be appropriate, responsible, mature people and not hold

0:48.1

out for a nice dress in a party, that's for people who are sort of traditional.

0:55.0

Once we've breached that, I think you need to show respect

0:58.7

to each other, to the baby,

1:01.4

to the history of what it's all about and to the tradition. So I think this weekend

1:07.9

with both your sets of parents you ought to go to the justice of the peace, get

1:11.4

married, and have a nice lunch.

1:15.0

And get busy thinking about how she's going to stay home and raise the kid and how you're going to support everybody.

1:21.0

It's because we've got to get down to the practical business.

1:24.4

By the way, how long have you known her?

1:27.3

We've been together almost six years.

1:29.9

Oh, good.

1:30.7

Because if it was six months, you'd probably be divorced, and then I don't know what to tell you.

1:34.0

But yeah, you need to go to the Justice of the Peace.

1:36.6

You've done nothing traditionally.

1:38.0

You've been together.

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