Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage.

I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly.

Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you

strengthen your most intimate relationship. Today on the podcast, we are answering your

questions about boundaries for your marriage. We have heard from some listeners who have some

great questions, and so we will do

our best to answer them today. Before we hear Dr. Kim's answers to these questions, we want to make

sure you know about our boundaries workbook. We created the workbook as a simple guide to help make

this content practical and applicable. It's designed to help both you and your marriage grow healthier.

Head over to awesomemarriage.com or look in today's show notes wherever you listen to get

a hold of that helpful resource. So Dr. Kim, are you ready?

I am ready. This is exciting. This is fun.

Okay. So our first few questions are related to like in-laws and family of origin.

So question number one,

what are some practical steps to set boundaries with in-laws? My wife won't let go of her mom,

so my wife typically routes our decisions through her mom prior to making a decision.

Good question. And I think it's probably something that a lot of couples maybe go through a little bit. I've worked with couples that. And especially if the younger seems like someone gets married a couple, they might, they're used to taking things through one parent or the other. And I think to start with, you have to have your own family. And so you kind of separate yourself from your family of origin

and you from your own family unit. So that would be the goal. And I think too when we're dealing

stuff with someone's in-laws, I know in-laws can make people very upset. I've heard all kinds of things

about people talking about in-laws. I think you always have to remember these are your spouse's parents

and they are going to be a part of your life for as long as they're around. And so I think you always have to remember, these are your spouse's parents, and they are going to be a part of your life for as long as they're around.

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