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The Dr. Laura Podcast

“Why Is This Happening Now?!”

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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“Why Is This Happening Now?!”: Molested at age five, Nicole now faces long-term damage as an adult. - Dr. Laura: "In truth...you should be more angry with your mother!" | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://family.drlaura.com/pg/jsp/help/general/privacypolicy.jsp for privacy information.

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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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