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"just someone else trying to bring dr laura down, i guess people think that her advice is to "harsh"...people need to toughen up."

With all due respect, I don't think that Burt is judging her on her professional advice. He's illustrating that for a woman who has made quite a name for herself (and a fortune) prescribing the correct behavior, ethics and morality for others, her own leaves a lot to be desired.

If you had assiduously worked in a consciencious, professional manner for another professional, over a 4 month period of time, wouldn't you expect payment? . . and wouldn't you anticipate a personal communication from the person who hired you four months earlier, if you were to be abruptly terminated?

Burt's point is simple. In her own conduct, she lacks good manners at the very least. At worst, she's a cheap skate!

......and personally, I've found her to be quite unbending, very often cold......and her insistence that once people have gotten married, they MUST stay married regardless of the circumstances.......to be unrealistic, therefore flawed.

Thanks for your stimulating comment, anyway!,br>

Char :)

Perhaps she did not terminate his employment with much finesse. But according to him, he did get paid (or at least the promise of it - actually, he does not make this clear):

I was assured I’d be paid in full – always the right thing to say to a writer who has his lawyer on speed-dial.

So I don't think it's fair to say he did not get paid. Sounds like he's just ticked 'cause she didn't use his stuff and wasn't overly polite about it. This is on the level of everyday rudeness, not moral turpitude.

My ex father in law was a lot like Dr. Laura. Always moralizing about what's wrong with the world and how people are sending the world to hell in a hand basket. Yet the rules he wanted everyone to follow didn't apply to him. Much like Dr. Laura.

I do in general agree with her regarding marriage. If you're a Christian, there are two reasons for allowable divorce. Yet many Christians use the "we've grown apart. we grown in different directions" yada, yada. yada. Those are not scriptural reasons for divorce. Adultry and a nonbeliever leaving a believer are. The only two. A Christian can't complain of growing apart, alchoholism and so forth and filing for divorce. Two people made a solemn oath before and to God and the world to stay through better or worse. When it gets slight less than better, too many want to fold the tent and move on.