IDIOT with Laura Clery

Why would you spend time with your ex after everything? That was the first question we pulled from your most-liked comments, and it's a fair one. Stephen and I are divorced, we're friends, and we raise our kids together.He's a year sober. We were best friends for fifteen years, and that doesn't just go away. I've chosen to forgive him, not just for his sake but for mine, and I take it one day at a time. We also get into what actually works for him after three trips to rehab, what co-parenting looks like with two houses a mile apart, and the fridge.If you've ever wondered how that works, then this one's for you.
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On my one-year sober birthday, I was sitting outside my drug dealer's apartment waiting for him to get home. I'd deleted his number, found him on Facebook anyway, and made up my mind. I was going out.I called my sponsor only because she told me to, and when she didn't pick up, I took that as a sign. What happened when she called back is the reason I just celebrated 15 years sober. I'm telling the whole story, plus how I got sober in the first place and what keeps me sober now.Grab a slice of cake and come celebrate with me.
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When my son was diagnosed at two, all I could find were horror stories. Then I saw an old video of Toren as a little kid and my jaw dropped, because it was Alfie.

Serenity and Toren have become real friends, and honestly mentors to me as a mom. We talk about meltdowns, regressions when our kids get sick, and the rejection sensitivity Serenity and I both live with. How the heck am I a content creator with that?
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Do you regret having kids? Or do you regret not having them? Be real. I asked that on this episode and I genuinely want to know, because Manon Mathews and I don't totally agree.She thinks the regret of not having them lasts way longer than anyone who regrets having them. I told her about a whole account of parents anonymously admitting the opposite. By the end, we'd both moved a little.If you've ever been on the fence, then this one's for you.
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My cycle app says nine days until my period, and I woke up already in it. Sore, irritable, emotions turned all the way up, and parenting while PMS, which is honestly my idea of hell.So today I go through all four phases of the cycle and why they feel more intense now that I'm 40, what the research says about the best kind of parenting and where I actually land, and then I call my mom, because sometimes you just need your mommy. She's in the thick of it with my dad's physical therapy, which he has decided is karate.Come along.
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