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Response to a Call
03/20/2012
Needing to Hear the Logic I called you today (Monday 3/19) and asked your opinion on whether or not I should take a job to "save" our family inspite of the fact my artist husband was greatly against it. More >>

Tags: BudgetBusinessFinancesJobMarriageRead On-AirResponse to a Call
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03/14/2012
Emotional Family Pricetags Your advice to the daughter who had been her father's caregiver and then was tasked as being his estate's executor were both morally and legally correct, but let me share my experience which, by the way, mirrors what several friends have experienced having been put in the same place. More >>

Tags: Family/Relationships - FamilyRelationshipsRelativesResponse to a Call
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03/14/2012
Your 'Dose of Reality' I called about a month ago asking how I could get over my anger of my former sister-in-law dating less than 6 months after my brother's suicide. More >>

Tags: Family/Relationships - FamilyRelationshipsRelativesResponse to a Call
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03/06/2012
Second Marriages and Babies I just heard the call from the "50" year old newlywed whose "40" year old wife desperately wanted children. I was in a similar predicament 10 years ago, when at 35 I married my husband, 11 years my senior. More >>

Tags: BehaviorGrandchildrenGratitudeMotherhood-FatherhoodPregnancyRelationshipsRelativesResponse to a CallSecond marriage
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03/02/2012
A Husband's Perspective on Rape In response to the caller who lost her virginity to a rapist and now finds intimacy with her husband difficult. I am the 26 year husband of the victim of a date rape. More >>

Tags: AbuseAttitudeCherishMarriageRapeResponse to a CallResponse to a CallerValues
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02/24/2012
Sometimes You Have to Give Them the Boot I was so glad you validated again and again a caller who gave her son the boot. I "high-fived" myself, because I also gave my son the boot some 15 years ago. More >>

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02/24/2012
Charity's Daughter Who Suffered a Stroke This site has resources and a support group in the form of a listserv. There are a number of people who would be glad to talk to you over the phone as well. Some of them have faced situations like yours. More >>

Tags: HealthResponse To A Call
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02/23/2012
Carol's Baby Blanket Reward Carol called in September needing help for her intense fear of leaving her home (agoraphobia) as she was missing out on her family. She had a daughter in Holland who was pregnant and due in January. Her agoraphobia also prohibited from getting a plane. UPDATE: PHOTOS OF CAROL, her daughter and granddaughter. More >>

Tags: HealthMental HealthPsychotherapyResponse to a Call
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02/22/2012
Advice for Overwhelmed Mom I broke down in tears yesterday listening to the caller whose 12-yr-old daughter was in ICU after having a stroke. It brought back all the memories of my own (now) 12-yr-old daughter who was born 14 weeks premature and spent 79 days in ICU with a brain injury due to lack of oxygen from a prolapsed umbilical cord. More >>

Tags: HealthMotherhood-FatherhoodMotheringParentingResponse To A Call
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02/15/2012
My Boy's About Face I wrote you a few years ago about what military boot camp did for my unmotivated 13 year old son. He is now 16 years old, in his third year at a marine military academy and was just promoted to Cadet Staff Sergeant last week. More >>

Tags: AttitudeMotivationParentingPersonal ResponsibilityRead On-AirResponse To A CallValues
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