Helping Family is Wearing Me Down

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Carrie regrets taking her elderly mother and grown nephews into her home. 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	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.3	Terry, welcome to the program.
0:13.3	Oh, hi, Dr. Laura. How are you?
0:16.7	Good.
0:18.9	I had called you at a time that I really had been in a depressed.
0:24.4	I've got my 90-something-year-old mom to come from New York to live with me.
0:29.8	I just became a widow about two years ago.
0:33.3	And I got her and my niece and my nephew because they stayed with her.
0:38.5	Now, when they just got here in October, September, September.
0:44.3	So it's a lot of in and out in things that's coming up from the past and all sorts of things.
0:51.2	It was just really having me very depressed and seemed like I'm fighting all the time.
0:57.0	And the other two, they're so used to being with her if I say something, she's the mama bear.
1:02.5	She just has to protect them and all that. Now, these guys are grown people, 19 and 29.
1:10.2	One got special needs, but I'm still like, they got to go.
1:14.4	They got to get grown.
1:15.6	They got to get out of here, you know.
1:18.5	What do you think?
1:19.7	What do you think I need to do?
1:21.3	I don't know.
1:24.2	What do you wish to do?
1:33.5	I wish to get everybody in their proper place and get mom me and her and get the guys in their own little spot or in their own little whatever they have to live
1:38.6	at and we all be here in california together i have no idea what you said.
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