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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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At age 63, Elizabeth isn't sure she likes the direction she's headed. 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.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Elizabeth, welcome to the program.
0:14.6	Yeah, so of 63, I'm single, basically retired, have had some part-time jobs.
0:22.6	Have you always been single?
0:25.6	Yes.
0:27.0	Oh, you didn't mention that.
0:28.3	Okay.
0:29.0	So, and the reason you never hunkered down and got married and made babies and all that is because?
0:35.1	Yeah.
0:36.7	I, you know, when I was growing up, I lost my dad at age 12 and it sort of blew up my whole family.
0:43.3	We were sort of cast, you know, everybody just sort of, you know, on your own.
0:47.3	So sort of from age 12, just sort of felt like, okay, life is short, you're on your own, go hard,
0:53.3	and ended up a job, ironically,
0:57.0	in Wall Street.
0:58.0	You know, of course, back then it was like in the 80s, and it was like, oh, you're the girl,
1:02.0	you'll quit, which was, you know, just the perfect incentive to stay with it.
1:06.0	And I guess it was just sort of always, you know, maybe not having that family represented
1:15.3	and guys that I liked didn't necessarily like me and guys who did, you know, but I did,
1:22.4	unfortunately, you know, have a tendency to pick bad choices, which I guess is the best thing that, you know, never happened, that I, you know, I'm not calling you now with, you know, all kinds of marriage proposal or whatever.
1:40.5	But, yeah, and I loved working with guys.
1:45.5	And I love having guys as friends.
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