“Why Is This Happening Now?!”
The Dr. Laura Podcast
Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM
4.6 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day. |
| 0:03.8 | Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011. |
| 0:09.9 | To call, welcome to the program. |
| 0:12.3 | Hi, I'm extremely nervous, but I admire your truth, so I appreciate you taking my call. |
| 0:20.5 | Oh, I appreciate you framing it that way. Let's see if I can help you. What's up? |
| 0:25.6 | Well, I guess I'm just having trouble understanding why certain things are occurring now that I'm 35 years old. |
| 0:34.5 | When I was five, I was sexually abused by a neighbor until about eight or nine years old. |
| 0:42.8 | And he was the neighbor and adult or another kid or what? |
| 0:48.7 | He was an adult. He was like a grandpa type of figure. |
| 0:52.6 | So a lot of kids, if somebody even looks at them crossways, they get scared and run away. |
| 1:02.8 | You had no change in behavior? |
| 1:08.0 | That nobody knows. |
| 1:09.2 | I didn't. It wasn't until about eight or nine when I was like, I don't want to do this anymore. |
| 1:15.2 | I don't like it. |
| 1:17.5 | And he begged and pleaded and cried and showed me pictures of his family and his daughters. |
| 1:22.4 | Etc. To not tell anybody. |
| 1:25.7 | And I didn't. I didn't tell anybody. |
| 1:28.1 | I didn't say anything until I was about 18 years old to my mom. |
| 1:32.1 | Who did you live with? |
| 1:35.6 | I lived with my mom and my dad and my brother. |
| 1:39.1 | And is there any reason so little attention was paid to you in general? |
| 1:47.6 | I was. |
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