When Your Parents Won’t Let Go of Your Ex

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Brianna ended a relationship after realizing the older guy she dated at 17 wasn’t right for her, but her parents keep inviting him over like nothing changed. Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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0:32.4	Brianna, welcome to the program.
0:34.9	Hello, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call.
0:38.3	My pleasure.
0:39.3	What's going on?
0:40.3	Well, first of all, I just want to say thank you for all you do.
0:44.3	My grandma used to play you your show through the house when my dad was growing up, and
0:51.3	then now my parents play it, and I grew up with it and you used to absolutely
0:55.5	annoy me to no end but as I got older I grew to appreciate your advice and now I am addicted
1:03.9	just like everyone else in my family oh thank you that's very sweet of you you've made me
1:09.7	smile big time today thank you. That's very sweet of you. You've made me smile big time today. Thank you.
1:12.0	Good, good. Okay, so my dilemma is I dated a guy for about a year, a year and a half, something like that, and we broke up. And after we...
1:25.8	Not and. We broke up because... We broke up because after we not end we broke up because we broke up because there were a couple different
1:32.4	reasons first of all he was in California and I was in Missouri so quite a long distance commute
1:38.2	secondly the more I got to know him the more I realized that he was just kind of blah, not really
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