Eight years ago, I was in a really bad place.  I was in an abusive relationship on the verge of shacking up and essentially cutting myself off from my family.  I was already isolated from my most meaningful friendships.  Despite listening to you all my life, I was rebelling against everything I knew to be the right thing to do.  Miraculously, I came to my senses and got out before making an illegitimate kid or becoming an unpaid whore.  

That's when I started listening to you again and decided to do everything by the "Dr. Laura Handbook" next time around.  Setup on a blind date by mutual friends, my now husband and I were pretty smitten right away.  I told him upfront that when I had children, they would never be in daycare.  By our third date, he told me that if we were married with children, WE would raise them, not strangers.  We dated two and a half years, never shacked up and did nine months of premarital counseling.  I chose really well.

We've now been married five years and have two little girls.  I've never been happier.  Our girls have never set foot inside a daycare and have rarely ever been with a babysitter besides their adoring grandparents or cousins.  Marriage and parenting are not easy, but I listen to you every day and hear your voice in my head reminding me to be his girlfriend and be present for my kids.  It has made me a much better person.