Who Gets the Dog After Divorce?

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Alex is fine with never seeing his ex-wife again, but he's not happy about losing custody of his fur baby. 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.
0:11.4	Alex, welcome to the program.
0:13.9	Hello, Dr. Laura.
0:14.9	I've listened to you on and off since the 1980s when I was a teenager and my mom had you on the radio.
0:21.2	So it's nice to finally speak with you.
0:23.9	Wow.
0:24.5	Thank you.
0:26.0	What can I do for you today?
0:28.3	Yeah, my question is, long story short, I'm getting divorced.
0:34.6	And we've been married a little over three years and this is not a first marriage
0:41.9	it's my first or second oh you waited a long time yes I was in my late 40s what
0:53.3	what's breaking the marriage up in three years?
0:58.0	We've just both really changed a lot.
1:00.4	There's not anything, you know.
1:02.1	In three years, what could possibly have changed that much?
1:08.3	I mean, there's maybe if I was a guest for the next half hour, I could explain it.
1:13.6	But there's some life event, some people died.
1:21.2	Why did that break up a marriage?
1:24.6	People are dying every day all over the world.
1:27.2	Why did that break up a marriage i guess i would say
1:30.8	the people that we were when we started to date and were engaged are not the people that we've
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