4 Surprising Secrets of Successful Relationships (What I Learned From a Fight With My Daughter)

The Mel Robbins Podcast

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Education, Mental Health, Relationships, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 10.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

How do you have a “healthy” fight with your family? How do you repair a relationship with someone you love? Today Mel is joined by her husband Chris, their daughter Kendall, and their son Oakley to answer listener questions about all kinds of relationships. This is the perfect episode to listen to with your family. You’ll hear the Robbins’ insightful, powerful, fun, and sometimes hilarious advice on how to get along with and love everyone in your family. Hear Mel unpack the 4 important lessons she learned from a silly fight she had that morning with her daughter, Kendall (note: there is some cursing). In this conversation, Mel, Chris, Oakley, and Kendall discuss: The 4 important life lessons Mel learned from her fight with Kendall. How to use the Let Them Theory to diffuse fights with family. A smart relationship “trick” from a therapist that Mel and Chris love. Mel’s funny story of how she ran into Reese Witherspoon. How to repair a damaged relationship with your child. When and how to apologize to your family. What to do when someone you love is always angry at you. The real reason you treat your family worse than you treat strangers. What strengthens most parent-kid relationships? What happened when guilt made Kendall do something she didn’t want to? What to do when your kids don’t talk to you. The reason family members start a fight. The right moment to bite your tongue in an argument. The one thing that will stop you from “advice vomiting” on your kids. The phrase you need to repeat to yourself when you feel left out of your friend group. (Or when you just miss your friends.) What you need to know that will help you feel more confident after a move to a new home or school. What happens the moment you meet your idol. (It’s not what you think.) Watch the episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/45OWCNr Check out my book, The High 5 Habit: https://a.co/d/g1DQ8Pt Follow me: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3QfG8bb The Mel Robbins Podcast Instagram: https://bit.ly/49bg4GP LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/46Mh0QB TikTok: https://bit.ly/46Kpw2v Sign up for my newsletter: https://bit.ly/46PVnPs Want more resources? Go to my podcast page at melrobbins.com/podcast. Disclaimer

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0:00.0	Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins podcast.
0:04.1	I just have an intrusive thought to interrupt you.
0:12.1	You had an intrusive thought? What do you mean? I just be like
0:15.0	be like halfway through the welcome to.
0:17.0	Welcome to know what?
0:20.0	Welcome to having kids on the show.
0:22.0	All right well as you can tell I'm not alone.
0:25.0	I have our 18 year old son Oakley,
0:28.0	our 23 year old daughter Kendall, and my awesome husband,
0:32.0	Christopher Robbins, all here at
0:34.8	serious XM studios in Los Angeles and we have piles and piles and
0:40.1	piles of questions from listeners that are directed at Kendall and Oakley.
0:46.7	And so we are just going to rapid fire your questions and crowd source answers as a family.
0:54.6	But before we start, can we please talk about the fact that I met Reese Witherspoon?
1:00.3	Yeah.
1:01.3	So I got to tell you this story. A couple days ago in New York, I'm there for work, I get up early, I go exercise with Christine who, you know, is our chief operating officer and your aunt,
1:13.5	and we are walking back to the hotel that we're staying in.
1:16.0	It's probably, I don't know, maybe quarter of eight o'clock
1:20.4	in the morning.
1:21.7	And you know how when you walk into some hotels there's two sets of
1:25.1	doors, there's that first door on the outside and then there's that little like hallway
1:28.6	area and then the second set of doors? So we open up the first set of doors to walk into the hotel and
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