274: How To Repair Your Fractured Family Relationships Today

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Over 25% of Americans are experiencing an estrangement with a loved one or family member. This can negatively impact your romantic relationship and overall well-being. After years of studying family estrangement and rigorous research, Dr. Karl Pillemer has been able to find the common reasons families become estranged, and how they successfully repair these fractures. Through interviews with over 100 families who have repaired an estranged relationship, Karl has unique insights and knowledge to help us repair fractured relationships, and live a happier, healthier life. In this episode, we discuss relationship advice topics that include: How to deal with difficult and problematic in-law relationships Steps to take to repair a fractured relationship with a family member or loved one How to mend an estrangement and start having a better relationships with your family and friends Why fractured families can negatively affect your romantic relationship and how to prevent this Why coming to agreements and resolutions with estranged family members is not necessary to repair an estranged relationship And much more! Dr. Karl Pillemer is Professor of Human Development at Cornell University. A world-renowned family sociologist, he spent five years studying processes of estrangement and reconciliation in families. His just-published book, Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them, provides strategies and tips for healing family rifts. For more information on our guest, and for the episode links visit: https://idopodcast.com/274 Spark My Relationship Course: Get $100 off our online course. Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! Podcast Series: Love Under Quarantine Sign up for our 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge here: 14 Day Happy Couples Challenge Join our 5 Day Couples Appreciation Challenge here: idopodcast.com/appreciation Do you want to hear more on this topic? Continue the conversation on our Facebook Group here: Love Tribe Help Support The Show! Donate Here. Sponsors Uberlube is a luxurious, high-grade silicone lubricant made from clean, body-friendly ingredients. Get 10% off and free shipping when you use our code “IDo” at UberLube.com. Function of Beauty is the world’s first fully customizable hair care brand. Visit FunctionofBeauty.com/IDO to take your four part hair profile quiz and save 20% on your first order. If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! – Chase & Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. What's going on?
0:28.0	going on, Love Tribe.
0:30.0	Thanks for tuning in to today's show.
0:32.6	We appreciate you guys.
0:34.6	And today we have Dr. Carl Pilimer,
0:37.2	where we talk about his latest book, Fault Lines,
0:40.6	Fractured Families, and how to mend them.
0:43.0	And of course, you might be asking how this relates to your relationship.
0:48.0	And I actually wanted to have Carl on the show because of personal estrangement issues. I think most
0:57.2	families have something going on. We're not all just perfectly functioning families and if we have a more functioning family
1:07.5	then I believe we're gonna have a better personal life and also better
1:12.3	relationships and then better and then how our partners can come into play with that and also of course we talk
1:25.9	about issues surrounding in-laws really a lot that we dig into today with Carl
1:32.4	and I found a lot of value in today's episode.
1:35.0	And a little bit about Carl, he is the professor of human development at Cornell
1:41.0	University. He is a world-renowned family psychologists and has
1:45.3	spent five years studying the process of estrangement and reconciliation in
1:51.1	families. So he is basically the best, one of the best people to talk to when it comes to
1:58.1	estrangement and reconciliation with your loved ones.
2:01.6	Yeah, and as I said, I really found this episode valuable and we hope you guys do too.
2:08.0	We appreciate you tuning in.
2:10.0	Please subscribe to the podcast, tell your friends and family.
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