Why Are My Kids Estranged From Me?

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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How can Amy figure out why her adult children have chosen to remove her from their lives? Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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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
0:06.3	Friday from 2 to 5 PM Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111. Amy, welcome to the program.
0:13.5	The reason I'm calling is I am a single woman divorced for many years approaching retirement
0:21.9	and I have three adult children and they are 39 35 and 31 and you know about to turn 60 and
0:32.9	I have a grandchildren between the three of them two sons and a daughter and my two oldest children
0:43.4	are happily married and as far as I know they are happily married and my oldest son
0:51.1	is doing extremely well in his career he's received a lot of accolades and just you know it
0:58.8	admired in the community and so forth and my daughter is and her husband are very involved in
1:05.8	her church et cetera my youngest son has suffered from several different mental illness issues
1:15.6	and addiction so he's had a dual diagnosis and has been in and out of mental health facilities
1:23.0	and drug rehabs and it has really taken a toll on me over the last five to ten years and
1:34.0	my two oldest children have never been supportive to either him or me and out of the grandchildren
1:42.8	I am raising or helping to raise the the younger son's child whose mother passed away suddenly
1:51.3	almost six years ago so cutting to the chase I'm a stranger from the two oldest children and so
2:00.0	I don't know why is that why why why why is that why are you estranged why well that's why I'm
2:08.8	trying to fix that that's what I'm trying to figure out um okay how about we ask them how
2:15.0	about we drive over there knock on the door and say why are we estranged can you just fill me in
2:20.3	I'm not nagging you I just want to understand how about you do that and then you'll have an answer
2:24.7	no you haven't no you haven't no you haven't don't lie I always know when people are lying
2:40.6	get in your car drive over there this evening knock on the door and say I don't even need to
2:45.6	come in you can come out into the porch just kind of want to understand we're disconnected
2:50.8	because and be honest with me brutally honest tell me why maybe it's we can repair it maybe we can't
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