Boundaries and In-Laws
Fierce Marriage
Ryan and Selena Frederick
4.9 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This is a struggle every couple understands. How do we maintain healthy boundaries with relatives, especially when those relatives (though well-meaning oftentimes) are difficult to be around? How do we graciously communicate when boundaries have been breached? And what do we do to "hold the line" when they refuse to respect healthy boundaries? In this episode we dove deep into what the Bible has to say about family relationships and looked at ways we can love honor our parents (and other family members) without compromising our convictions or values in the process.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, it's the episode you've all been waiting for for us to finally talk about how to set |
| 0:05.1 | boundaries within laws and extended family. It's a hard thing to do because we, as I think, |
| 0:12.1 | believers and Christians, right, we fall into this camp of like, I want to honor my family, |
| 0:16.9 | I want to honor my parents. But sometimes they may get hard to do that. |
| 0:21.3 | So how do I set that boundary because they're always talking about my spouse? |
| 0:25.9 | Or they just want to talk about this other person in our family or, you know, all the things that the Lord has called us as believers not to engage in. |
| 0:33.5 | How do we? |
| 0:34.4 | Or I see the effects of my in-laws on our marriage or on my spouse, and you're likely seeing the effects because they're less than positive. |
| 0:42.0 | Right. |
| 0:42.3 | And you don't really know how to navigate that because you bring it up and it ends up being a blow-up fight or ends up pitting, you pit yourselves against each other. |
| 0:51.5 | It ends up being your family versus their family or you versus |
| 0:55.1 | their family. |
| 0:56.5 | It can be a really sticky situation. |
| 0:59.2 | Speaking from experience. |
| 1:00.3 | No, we're not going to throw our in-laws. |
| 1:02.0 | We love our in-laws. |
| 1:03.2 | But you know what? |
| 1:03.9 | Everyone's human. |
| 1:04.6 | And so we all have to figure out how to walk through this together. |
| 1:07.6 | And I think we'll be refreshed to find it is possible to have certain boundaries that |
| 1:14.0 | are very clear and to enforce those boundaries without also being a huge jerk so we're going to |
| 1:19.8 | talk through that today and we'll see you on the other side welcome to the fierce marriage podcast |
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