(Divorced) Home For the Holidays

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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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It never fails. In the months leading up to the holidays, I start getting calls from listeners looking for ways to deal with impending family dramas. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Listen to all my episodes of Dr. Laura's Deep Dive in your favorite podcast app.
0:07.0	Search for Dr. Laura's Deep Dive podcast and follow my Deep Dive today.
0:16.0	Dr. Laura's Deep dive.
0:19.0	Deep dive.
0:23.4	Dr. Laura's Deep diveive. Deep Dive. Dr. Laura's Deep Dive podcast.
0:25.1	It never fails.
0:29.5	In the months leading up to the holidays, I start getting calls from listeners looking for ways to deal with impending family dramas.
0:34.0	What should be a joyous time of reunion can sometimes feel like a burden, especially when there have been divorces and remarriages.
0:43.8	My listener, Kate, emailed me with the story of her family struggles and shared the solution she and her husband came up with to cope with a family holiday stress.
0:56.4	She wrote,
0:57.8	Dear Dr. Laura,
0:59.2	I know it's a little early for a Christmas story,
1:01.8	but I wanted to share this in case it helps someone else this season.
1:06.1	When my husband and I were first married,
1:08.6	we had to travel five to 600 miles to visit both families
1:13.4	and all the sub-families resulting from our parents' divorces. By the end of Christmas
1:18.9	day, I was usually in tears from the stress and strain. One year, I was heavily pregnant
1:27.3	at Christmastime. Our son was born in January. And later One year, I was heavily pregnant at Christmas time. Our son was born in January, and later
1:31.1	that year, my husband put his foot down, saying we would no longer travel those long distances.
1:37.8	If families wanted to see us, they would have to come to our house and get along with each other.
1:43.9	We didn't hear a lot of complaining
1:45.5	about this, although the visits were few and far between, and that was okay, because that enabled
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