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When you make big changes in your life sometimes it can be really hard for the rest of the family to kind of get on board with your decision.

I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta and Danny I wonder if you and your wife have felt that in your parenting

journey. We have perfect relationship with all our extended family and that's just

the idea that the goal for us is to have those perfect relationships.

That's what we have.

No, actually, John, this is a common topic in counseling, actually.

Extended family can dip into the family.

So you see people who feel this pressure or this conflict with extended family.

Oh, all the time.

All the time.

The extended family feels like they have a significant vote on the things going on in the home.

And one thing that my wife and I at some point, we had to go to counseling ourselves

in our marriage and one part of it was extended family issues.

In the Latino culture, the family, extended family is very involved and we had to really

sort some things out early in our marriage and what this looked like and what

boundaries needed to be put in place and I remember my parents having a real

difficult time as boundaries were placed. They wanted to get together every

Sunday. They wanted our time, they

wanted us to all have family time, which is not a bad thing, but we needed to establish

the boundaries, the patterns, our own family.

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