Will I Miss My Evil Mom?

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Jackie wonders if she will regret limiting contact with her destructive mom after she has died and they can no longer work on their relationship. 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.
0:02.9	You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.5	Jackie, welcome to the program.
0:14.2	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:16.1	Hey.
0:16.2	Thanks for taking my call.
0:18.4	You're welcome.
0:19.4	Well, I would like to, if you can, maybe give it your opinion on like a lifetime situation
0:26.6	I've had.
0:27.7	And the reason I was wanting your opinion is because I really have avoided telling people
0:33.8	all about the stuff because it's just the lame and it's lifetime.
0:38.2	And now I'm older.
0:39.9	And it's basically my mother has just always been so abusive, like ridiculous,
0:47.3	like really physically abusive when I was younger.
0:50.2	And then I left when I was 16.
0:53.0	And I just distanced myself my entire life but she's still
0:57.4	super abusive emotionally and you know just her words and she's terrible so I don't see her very
1:04.4	often if you've distanced yourself how does she get to you to be mean well I distance myself in the way that I see her rarely.
1:14.8	I call her.
1:16.0	And the reason I do that minimal is because, and that's where I wanted your opinion,
1:20.7	you know, because it just kind of gets to me in my mind to start thinking,
1:24.3	like, maybe I should reach out, but there is no hope for her so before she
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