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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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It hasn't occurred to Lauren yet that her wife's friendship with another woman has crossed the line to being inconsiderate and inappropriate. 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.
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	Lauren, welcome to the program.
0:14.9	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you.
0:17.3	You're welcome.
0:19.5	What can I help you with?
0:21.6	Okay. I have been with my wife for about 15 years. This is in regard to a very close friend of hers who's been a very good friend of hers for even longer than we've been together.
0:42.8	The three of us have actually had what I thought was a very good friendship.
0:54.4	And I think there's a situation that I guess I just kind of want to see if I would like to somehow taxfully salvage something that has come up.
1:00.6	This friend of her, okay, I'm just going to make it as brief as possible.
1:03.3	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
1:04.2	Don't make it brief.
1:05.1	Make it clear.
1:06.2	Take your time.
1:08.1	Okay, okay, okay.
1:13.9	The friend, in my opinion, I guess, is very clingy.
1:22.1	There's been for quite a while daily calls, daily calls that are not just calls.
1:35.3	They're more like sessions, it seems like, that just last for, say say anywhere from 30 minutes or so and it's you know it often comes at a time when say we're having you know dinner or trying to watch a movie and my wife doesn't have really good phone management in my opinion just kind of picks up whenever
1:48.6	you know whoever whenever no matter what and we've you know kind of had to you know feel with that
1:55.3	just trying to have some better phone management um but i i don't okay break take a break has nothing to do with phone management. But I don't. Okay, break.
2:01.5	Take a break.
2:02.3	It has nothing to do with phone management.
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