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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. Brittany, welcome to the program. How can I help? Honestly, I don't know how exactly to go about this. So it's a situation where...
Whenever I was younger, like, I'm going to take it back to before I had kids. Before I had kids, I used drugs. I was a drug addict. I had gotten clean. I ended up getting pregnant by now my ex-husband. And I had two kids by my now ex-husband. Well, whenever I started going through a divorce with him, I ended up relapsing.
and I got my kids taken away. During the whole CPS proceeding, I ended up signing my rights away because at the time that's
what was in the best interest of my children. I now have two more children that are in my custody. I've been five years clean. My aunt, she adopted my daughters. She won't let my daughters see me. She won't let me see my daughters. I know I have no legal right, but because I live in Texas, my two younger kids have a legal right to see their sisters. So
i'm really i guess really just my family has told me not to take this to court um that they don't want me to take it to court but i want my kids to know each other she's made it clear that um sorry i'm getting a little bit emotional because this is an emotional thought who who's the father of the latest two um he is actually here with me
I mean, he's a different guy than the first two, the ex-husband? Yes, a different guy. And you're married to this guy? I'm not married to him. It's common law married to him. Yeah, I don't believe in that. But all right. So your question for me is, should you fight this? Really, should I take my aunt to court for my two youngest kids to be able to have visitation with their older sisters?
And how far do you folks live from each other? Honestly, we don't live that far. My aunt just, she doesn't want no contact with me. How far? Ma'am, just try to answer the question. How far away do you folks live from each other, you and the aunt? Probably about 20 miles from each other. Okay. You're right. That's very close. You're asking my opinion? Is that what you're asking? Yes.
Yeah, basically your opinion. Okay, my opinion is you leave, you take care of, my opinion is you take care of your kids that are here, the other ones you signed away your rights. She did, she's not a babysitter. She took them on as a parent, and I think you need to respect that. And when the kids are all grown up, if everybody wants to meet, that can happen. Right now, she doesn't want confusion and upset.
And I believe it's important for you to respect that, even though it's unpleasant, because it's not necessarily in your current kid's best interest to see or not see. I mean, they're not going to be in each other's lives on a daily basis, even a weekly basis. I think it's for you. I know you feel bad, but you can't unravel the consequence of everything you did without causing major disruption. And sometimes we have to sacrifice considering that fact.
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I understand. That is kind of upsetting to hear. Thank her very much for jumping in when you couldn't. That was pretty amazing of her. Not too many people do that. Two kids? No. So don't rip her heart apart and don't rip them emotionally away because it's not just meeting more kids you made. It's who's my mommy. And you decided that it was in their best interest that your aunt be their mommy. So you have two blessings currently to take care of.
Let her take care of the others. I understand. That is upsetting to hear. And who knows? Some 15 years from now, you might have a curiously interesting family reunion. Because if she adopted him and she's your aunt, then I think you're a cousin to your own kids. I'm not sure that's right. But we'll worry about that then, okay? Okay.
All right. Thank you, Dr. Laura. I'm very proud of you, Brittany, that you got clean. I just wish you'd get married. Really, you do need to lay your lives down for each other and for the kids in a very formal way. That's really respecting the family concept more. And besides, you can wear a pretty dress. All right. Thank you, Dr. Laura. You're very welcome. My number, 1-800-375-7000.
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