Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast. I'm your co-host, Christina Dodson. This is an Ask

Dr. Kim segment where people submit their questions for Dr. Kim Kim, and he answers them.

Thanks for listening. Today on the Ask Dr. Kim segment of the Awesome Marriage podcast, our question

for it today is, is it okay to remove a family member from your life if they're

interfering with your marriage? What a tough question. What do you, what do you think, Dr. Kim?

Okay, yes. I think it's okay. Now, because, and we can flesh it out a little more, I'll unpack it

stuff, but the marriage is always first. God first marriage is second so something is somebody is

tearing it at your marriage it's causing conflict with you guys interference yes and it may be

temporary or it may be permanent but yes if it's getting in the way in your marriage uh sometimes

it's important to move somebody out.

Yeah, absolutely. I think that's good sound advice. So have you ever seen this happen,

Dr. Kim? When is it necessary to remove a family member from your life? It's not that really

hard boundary. I do think you need to go through a process first because you're always going to

have somebody in the family or whatever a relative that's going to bug you.

I mean, I don't know any family where there's not somebody that causes some problem.

So it depends what is the situation, how important is it to you?

And then if you need to set boundaries for that person, set the boundaries.

See how that works.

See if they respect the boundaries.

If they're not respected, then that may be your next step is to draw the boundary up.

You're not going to be a part of our life at this point.

I had a family do that a few years ago.

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