53 | Dealing with Difficult In-Laws as a Christian
Living Easy with Lindsey
Lindsey Maestas
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Do your in-laws threaten your marriage or invade your relationship?
On this reverse-interview episode with Michael and Elizabeth from the Marriage Talks Podcast, Lindsey shares her own story of family-member-drama as well as her perspective on what it means to deal with difficult in-laws as a Christian man or woman.
Genesis 2:24 says, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."
This isn't an easy thing to do - especially when family members are unwilling to be a part of the leave and cleave process.
A husband and a wife have behavioral, experiential and moral differences based on how they were raised. They are two sinners coming together and trying to make a godly relationship work. In order to have a healthy marriage, it is important to fight for healthy in-law relationships by showing the love of Christ.
When healing in-law relationships, Lindsey talks about focusing on side-by-side relationship builders, living the relationship out on your own rather than through your spouse, seeking humility and laying down your pride, watching your words and voicing expectations.
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Lindsey Maestas is the host of The Living Easy Podcast and discusses faith, truth and relationships while never shying away from the hard and uncomfortable topics.
Lindsey has two mottos: 'You Are More Than Your Mess' and 'Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes' and she speaks to moms, wives and girls about how to pursue righteousness and true joy while making real, lasting changes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone I am so excited to announce this episode dealing with difficult in-laws as a Christian |
| 0:07.6 | And the cool thing is that it's actually a reverse interview. So if you haven't heard me on other interviews, this will give you a sneak |
| 0:14.7 | peek into that. But I really, really loved the conversation and feel like it was just completely |
| 0:21.3 | led by the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:23.0 | And so I asked Michael and Elizabeth |
| 0:26.3 | from the Marriage Talks podcast |
| 0:29.1 | if they would be willing to give me the audio |
| 0:30.9 | so I could share with my listeners |
| 0:32.2 | and they are just amazing |
| 0:33.6 | so check them out at Marriage Talks and the conversation was just really heartfelt and |
| 0:38.8 | honest and practical when it's |
| 0:45.0 | comes to having a gospel perspective when dealing with really hard maybe toxic in-laws which I know is a |
| 0:49.0 | super common problem because it's probably the most common question I receive from married |
| 0:53.4 | couples and so Michael and Elizabeth had a wonderful response to this episode |
| 0:58.2 | even from older couples who had been married for a really long time so that |
| 1:01.8 | encouraged my heart and I wanted to share |
| 1:04.0 | it with all of you. |
| 1:05.6 | So I hope you enjoy this reverse interview episode and would love to hear your feedback so please tag |
| 1:12.2 | at Living Easy Podcast if you enjoyed it and |
| 1:14.6 | don't forget to give a quick rating and review on iTunes because in the |
| 1:19.5 | podcasting world in my little world that means so much all you have to do is scroll down from |
| 1:24.7 | this episode or from the home page of the podcast give a quick star rating and then |
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