My Child Lives in One State, and I Live in Another
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Thanks for listening to my Call of the Day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 111. Jason, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Hi. What's happening, Jason? Hi. I'm sorry. I'm really nervous. I don't want to ramble around and I don't want to get the woo-hoos.

You don't want to woohoo. There you had two of them. All right. Carry on. What can I help you with? I'm struggling a little bit with my wife. I'm a truck driver. We've been married six years. This is my second marriage, her first. We don't have kids between us.

Two, I have one. My daughter lives in another state with her mother, and her two kids live with us. The job, you know, obviously being on the road. May I interject here? Yes. Your kid. Yes. Your biological child lives in a different vicinity. Yes.

And you have your new wife's kids living with you. Do you see anything wrong with that picture? Absolutely. Then why are you doing it? Absolutely. Why aren't you in the state with your kid? Mom has custody. Mom moved out of the state that I was in with her, and I moved to Florida. So we both moved in different directions.

My daughter goes with me in the summertime. We have 50-50. So I take her in the summer. Raising someone else's kids. I wonder how that makes your daughter feel. All right. And what's the problem with your new wife? She doesn't seem to respect my boundaries and is incredibly critical about... What does respect your boundaries mean in English? I don't know what that means.

So, if I'm speaking to her, she goes, are you done yet? Are you finished? We've been going on with this for, you know, 15 minutes. You know, I have other things to do. Every time I call her, she's too busy. She doesn't make it. It seems like she doesn't make any time for me. She has.

degraded me or spoke down to me calling me stupid just you know name-calling screaming at me things like that and her point of view on the relationship is what if she were here what would be her her rendition

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Could you sign it again? Anything to help? I suppose. You're the best. Get more than just savings. Get more with Geico. She would say, so with the whole stupid, she would say that would be a stupid question. And so you're stupid for asking it. She would say that maybe I talk too much about a particular topic. Like I try to address things in the relationship and come to her with the

Not with emotion, but with like logic. But she's too stressed out with her day to day to deal with those things. Like, for example, her lack of communication with me while I'm on the road. I know that she has a whole nother, you know, basically life because I'm on the road for like two months. Yeah.

So it makes it difficult. But when I call her, she's she's constantly busy with other things. We set a time to take a night. Let me understand this. You're on the road for two months without going home. Correct. And then how long are you home? I haven't been home for a week and probably about a year and a half. So I'm home. I do go home, but it's like two days, three days. How many days out of a month are you home?

Out of a year? Out of a month? Well, I'm... Oh, out of the year, how many days in my home? Probably about a week. Is this a real phone call? Yes. Because I haven't heard anything this silly in a long time, and I'm finding it hard to believe it's real. If either one of you calls this a marriage, that's just silly. I'm with her. This is just silly. You never should be married. Yeah, she says that I'm not making enough money. You never should be married. This is silly.

This is not how you marry. You don't marry and then not be together. That's just silly. Well, she's in school right now so that we can fix our finances. Okay, sir, I don't think I can be helpful to you because I think this is a silly circumstance, which doesn't lend itself to much good communication, love, attention, kindness, warmth, touching. There's none of those things that's going to happen when you're on the road and she's alone with her kids.

So I think your expectations for calling this a marriage are way out of whack. Okay. I think you ought to give her a hug, get a different job and move to where your daughter is. Okay. That's what I think you morally should be doing. My number 1-800-375-2800.

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