Clyde Should Be Very Proud of Himself
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for a clean you can feel good about. All you need is All Free Clear. Thanks for downloading my Call of the Day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 111. Clyde, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Very nice to hear you. Thank you. What can I do for you? I just have a

unresolved issue. Like, my dad recently just passed away, and when I was a kid, he would always, I don't know, he'd always beat me up and put me down. Clyde, Clyde, did you call because you thought we could resolve it after he's dead? No, just to how, like, I don't know why he would push me away after him dying and still not wanting to see me. Because he's not a nice man, doesn't let people close, he has terrible guilt for how he behaved. Is that enough of a list, or do you want more? Yeah, and how my...

brother and my sister kept me away from him for his wishes. Like, I don't know. I guess I never got closure, I guess. There isn't any closure. There are things we will never understand. There are things we'll never be happy to accept. He was a difficult, confused, not very nice person and violent. Yes, totally right. So, frankly, he's dead. Sorry. It was very hard growing up for you. Would you say you're a pretty good guy who's doing reasonably well in life?

Yeah, I think I'm doing pretty good now. Well, look at that. In spite of how he was not a good dad, you pulled yourself up anyway. Despite that he was not a good dad, but your brother and sister knew how to play the game with him, you still, on your own, are doing pretty good with your life. Frankly, instead of looking for closure about that because it ain't coming, you should, in my opinion, look at it with great pride that in spite of

The shitty stuff you had to deal with, you've done pretty well. And there's more good stuff that you will do in the future instead of thinking about the not very good dad you had. That's awesome. That's exactly what I wanted to hear. Well, bless you. Go on and enjoy your life. We're done with him. It's awesome. It's hard like not having a mom and a dad in your life. It's hard on the kids. Yep, it is.

That's why it's all the more remarkable how well you're doing now. Yes. That's right. Thank you very much, Dr. Lohan. Thank you very much. You're very welcome. And don't forget that. When you have really crappy parents and you're not on drugs and doing all this idiot stuff, maybe you did, then you pulled yourself out of it, and now you're building a life. You should be very proud of yourself instead of still agonizing about what a crappy parent you had. I'm sorry we don't choose our parents. We're going to take a break.

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