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 Ask Dr. Kim, the question is, should I dump my girlfriend if my

parents don't like her? What a great question and the interesting question.

So obviously someone is in this situation. Dr. Kim, what do you think? It is an interesting

question. I think number one, I would not dismiss it. I would say, okay, I don't say,

I wouldn't say, dump your girlfriend, but I also say, why are they saying this to me?

You know, are they seeing something that I'm not seeing? And I think there's so much of it.

It does depend on your relationship with your parents, the relationship with the person that you're

dating. I think there's a lot of variables but go in this. And in my situation, when Nancy and I

started dating, my parents and I remember one dinner was sitting down and talking to them.

And they had some concerns about us more than really not Nancy because they end up loving her more than they do me.

But just brought up some things.

And I can remember feeling defensive at first, but then thinking, yeah,

those are some valid things that we probably need to think about that we need to think through.

And so I had a great relationship with my parents. I knew they valued me. I knew they were

learning to love Nancy. But I think part of theirs was the fact that, you know, we were 20 years

old. And so they wanted us to think about some things.

So I think they didn't ever, would never, I don't think my parents would ever come,

unless I was just, they just saw huge red flags and said, break up with this person.

But I think they were very good about saying, have you considered this?

There's some things we'd like you guys to think about that kind of thing.

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