Dr. Laura: I'm Dr. Laura Schlessinger, my number: 1-800-DR-LAURA. Joe, welcome to the program.
Joe: Hi, Dr. Laura, how are you?
Dr. Laura: Fine, thank you.
Joe: Recently, my wife and I were cleaning out an area of our house, and she found- Dr. Laura: Cleaning out what area? Joe: It was a closet, an old closet.
Dr. Laura: The two of you were cleaning out a closet.
Joe: We were just getting ready for our new baby. We are going to turn it into our new baby's room. Dr. Laura: Ah. You were turning a closet into the new baby's room? Joe: Not the closet, it's part of the whole room. Dr. Laura: Oh, okay, so you were cleaning out a room for the baby, and you were working on the closet when what happened?
Joe: She found a box of hers that contained a bunch of different things from when she did a study over in Israel to love letters from ex-boyfriends, and she insists on keeping these love letters. And I asked her, you know, "Why don't you just throw them away," I said, "We've been married for a little more than two years," and she tells me I'm being petty. Is that petty?
Dr. Laura: Yeah.
Joe: Is it.
Dr. Laura: It's not a box she sits there and fondles, it's not letters she looks at dreamily, thinking she made a mistake with you. It's part of her history that she has shoved in a box and stuck in a closet. Joe: Okay.
Dr. Laura: And so I think you have to put it in its context, Joe. I think you have to put it in its context. I'm Dr. Laura Schlessinger.
