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Thu Aug 28th 2008
4:14 PM | Topic: Caller from yesterday who was asking about binge eating (Dr Laura kept her on hold for 3 hours on purpose to provoke anger). She was told that she had the skills to be in control of her anger and was given the assignment to figure out where the anger is coming from. Today's revelation is that she is angry at her divorced parents, especially her dad who was shacking up with his girlfriend and her mother who insisted she keep going over to his house. | artstone
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Fri Sep 12th 2008
4:03 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: Great supportive husband. If he's that uneasy about his masculinity, it's all downhill hill from here...divorce him! | WesternMA
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Mon Sep 15th 2008
5:30 PM | === Response ===
Conversation: She didn't have a lot of time for her answer, but as an infrequent listener, I'll guess at her rationale.
One of her principles about a marriage (and not just her) is that when you have a partnership, important life decisions need to have agreement of both parties before you proceed together as a team. Withholding sex is "out of bounds" to get that agreement.
Since the person was on the phone to Dr Laura with a problem, that told Dr Laura that she took the job without first getting agreement from her husband - hence she violated the partnership rules. It wasn't that women shouldn't have a job or that men make the rules, but that she decided to overrule the partnership arrangement to feed her ego. Support is a mutual thing - it goes both ways. | artstone
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Mon Sep 15th 2008
5:50 PM | Conversation: Couple where she wanted to marry her dad, and he wanted to not marry his drama queen mom. Dr Laura concludes they made a bad choice and should have had premarriage conseling and would never have married each other. | artstone
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Wed Oct 1st 2008
3:25 PM | Topic: An 11 year old has a bad relationship with his father and wants to go to court to change his last name and "be done with him." Dr. Laura: that won't change anything and it won't help you feel better. | WesternMA
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Thu Mar 12th 2009
3:49 PM | Topic: Giving gifts to others is self-centered. | artstone
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Tue Mar 17th 2009
6:08 PM | Topic: "I've learned more about my religion and decided to leave it. Now my brother wants to talk about it and it's becoming a problem". Say "You're my brother and I love you, but we are not going to discuss religion" | artstone
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Wed Apr 22nd 2009
3:36 PM | Topic: Duane "Dog" Chapman fired at in Colorado Springs by a murder suspect. | WesternMA
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Sun Jun 21st 2009
6:33 AM | === Response ===
Conversation: That doesn't strike me as particularly useful advice. If he really is a Navy Seal (he probably is lying), having a gun pointed in his direction is going to do nothing except get her killed. | artstone
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Mon Nov 30th 2009
3:11 PM
Updated:Mon Nov 30th 3:19 PM | Topic: Dr.Laura says don't buy a card for Christmas, write a letter instead- to tell people how much they mean to you . | 3tooz
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Thank you for your support - Signed, The Evil Micromanager.