When Communicating With Your Ex Goes Wrong

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🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:26.2	at Dr.ora.com. Send an email, Dr. Laura, at Dr. Laura.com. I've been divorced from my ex for 20 years.
0:35.6	We have always been friendly. He recently started dating a new person,
0:39.4	and now suddenly he texted me and said she was uncomfortable with some messages and statements I have made
0:44.7	about imagining our lives together. The divorced, mind you. And she still texts her ex-husband about,
0:51.6	yeah, okay. And now suddenly he's saying, I can't say things like that,
0:57.1	and it's disrespectful to his girlfriend, and she's asking for boundaries to be set, definitely,
1:03.3	whenever there's cattle. They recently moved in together, so it's not like they're married.
1:10.5	She's been in his life a year, and I've been there for over 20.
1:14.4	We have a 23-year-old son.
1:17.3	After we talked and he said he was respecting her by asking for boundaries,
1:21.3	he then got mad at me because I texted him at 1130 at night
1:26.0	because I had a question, and she's mad that I texted late at night.
1:31.5	It was just about MX points.
1:38.8	It was very urgent at 1130 at night.
1:42.3	How many Amex points can I? And he said it was disrespectful because it was
1:50.9	late at night and caused problems because she is now miraculously insecure about my friendship.
1:57.8	I'm sorry. I have a lot of friends. I shouldn't say have a lot of friends. I have a number
2:02.7	of very good friends, and I have never called one of them at 1130 at night to ask about
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