Why Am I Thinking of My Ex?

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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After 36 years of marriage, Bill wonders why he is feeling drawn to reconnect with his first wife. 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 Sirius XM Triumph 111. Bill, welcome to the program. Thank you. How are you? Good, Bill. How can I help?
0:18.8	Well, I've just got a bit of a situation that I think I might know the answer to, but it's still been bothering me.
0:26.4	And I was recommended to give you a show a call.
0:29.9	Why don't we start out with the answer and work our way back?
0:34.3	You think the answer might be?
0:37.9	It might be that I'm pulling up recurring thoughts and memories of my first wife
0:44.5	because I might not be too happy with my current situation.
0:50.2	My wife and I have been married for about 36 years.
0:54.3	And we're both getting up in age, so it's not like when we were young.
1:02.6	What was it like when you were young with your first wife?
1:05.5	What was that like?
1:08.0	We'd just be a lot more active.
1:14.4	You know, sex would be more frequent, things like that, a little more spontaneous.
1:27.1	Are we talking mostly about sex or other things, sports, movies?
1:34.9	No, not mainly that.
1:39.3	It's just that, again, I'm not sure. I'm not sure what it is if there's something with this
1:49.4	current relationship or it's just me getting i'm not asking sir stop i'm not asking you to
1:54.8	analyze i'm just asking you to tell me what your first marriage was like when you were younger
1:59.5	could you spend a
2:01.2	little more time on that, please? Okay. When I got married the first time, I was, I met the
2:10.8	girl. She was 20 years old. I was 27, so there was a pretty big age gap. We ended up getting married after dating for two years.
2:19.9	We were married for two years.
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