Dear Dr. Laura,
What you have done and continue to do for our society is priceless. Listening to you for the past, oh, 17 years or so, changed my life. I had never heard anyone speak so plainly in support of parenting my children of standing up for what is right and defending life. Your words reinforced my belief my most important "job" was raising my kids! I thank God I had your constant support because the general consensus was that I was "wasting my degree" by not working full time.
My children are 24 and 18 now.
Over the past few years, I've begun to whittle down my circle of "friends" who have proven to not be friends, but rather acquaintances. Just this weekend I found myself thinking about how many real friends I have - I'm 51 now and I really don't have a lot of friends. I have many, many acquaintances, but only a couple of real, true friends.
I need to do more self examination to make sure that I'm not becoming too jaded. (I almost wrote judgmental, but stopped myself. I'm entitled to judge whom I choose to have for friends!) Dr. Laura, you have been a trusted source of information to me for all these years that of course, I seek your counsel on this very important quest. I need to know if I'm on the right track or if I'm off track and need realignment as I enter this next great phase of my life!
Please know you helped one insecure, messed up girl who took the female escape route, to develop her thoughts, beliefs, and opinions into a self-assured woman who is so very proud to be my kids' mother!
With honor and respect,
J.
