Here’s How I Responded to My Shack-Up Daughter

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Mary shares what happened when she confronted her want-to-be shack up daughter with Dr. Laura's advice. 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 downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:12.4	Mary, welcome to the program. on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:13.0	Mary, welcome to the program.
0:15.0	Hi, Dr Laura, how are you?
0:18.0	Good, thank you.
0:19.0	What can I do for you?
0:21.0	Good.
0:22.0	I just wanted to share with you a story.
0:25.0	A successful story that, or a situation that I had with one of my kids and I owe it to you.
0:31.6	I applied your principles and I can't believe the outcome.
0:36.4	So I'm going to tell you real quick what it was about. It was about shocking up.
0:40.0	So one of my children, 22 years old, does online college, have a great job, informed me that she and her boyfriend who is going to be going to a school in the Midwest.
0:57.0	He's going to be living in a big house with a bunch of guys and a bunch of girls and said she can just come and live with them and you know she's online college and so forth.
1:07.0	And so she told me that you know he'd like to come to visit to sit down with all of us and let us know kind of what the plan is and I said well what is the plan what's you know what's happening
1:19.0	she said well we want to come and really talk about it we want to, well, don't you let me know what the plan is, because I didn't. And she said, well, my
1:28.7	boyfriend said that, you know, I can live with them. He's going to be there. There's also other girls living there and I'm online,
1:38.0	college, so I don't really have to, you know, be here. And I was like, oh my gosh I'm so ready for this I've listened to
1:46.2	Dr. Laura for so long so first thing I said was your dad and I do not support this. It goes against our principles. It goes against
1:56.2	our values. It's not something we're going to support. And she said, okay, well, mom mom all I really want is if you could just continue just to pay for the college
2:08.3	if you didn't want to pay for the rent and you don't want to pay for the books know, my boyfriend said he would do that and I said,
2:15.2	this is not something that we support, goes against our principles and our values.
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