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Triumph 111. Mary, welcome to the program.

Hi there, Dr. Laura, how are you?

Hi, good.

Thank you.

What can I help with?

Well, I thank you an email, I don't know, a while ago, and it was all about our Thanksgiving holiday where my sister wanted to spend the night and I asked her not to. I told her and I had lots of reasons why. But she came to the

feast with things for the next day's breakfast.

So I kind of lost my temper.

I had a little bit in my defense.

I had gotten, I guess, four weeks, three weeks prior to this.

My husband's gotten not a static cancer and we had gotten some news that has progressed and he had some new sites and things were just teetering, you know, up in the air.

So it was too much for him. We had two daughters of our own spending the night, one had two children and a son-in-law, and there was, there's

flat out no room. So I'd asked her, and I explained all this, but she kept pushing and said, no, I would bring my arrow bed and will sleep on the porch.

Well, I pointed out that it was 21 degrees out and no, it's not safe, even if we bring a heater, no, it's not safe even if we bring a heater no it's not safe so anyway she came we had

dinner and then my little grandson said something about them spending the

night and I said oh no they're not and then she looks at me like what do you mean so it

escalated I said some really ugly things and they ended up leaving her daughter did come back in and she and I had a moment

to go over everything and there's a big relationship issue

there, mother and daughter.

And I just said, you know, sometimes you don't get along with your mom this was my turn and I didn't

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