E1131 - Ask Nick - My Parents Are Mean Girling My Fiance
The Viall Files
Nick Viall
3.8 • 26.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2026
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Welcome back to The Viall Files: Ask Nick edition!
Our first caller is getting married THIS weekend and doesn't want her parents to "mean-girl" her soon to be husband. Our second caller is wondering if it's a red flag that she's only friends with guys and her ex. Meanwhile, our final caller is facing her partner's past of dishonesty, and questioning whether his job is an excuse for a wandering eye.
"You have to be open to things changing for the right guy."
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:13 - Caller One
37:06 - Caller Two
1:14:27 - Caller Three
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| 0:00.0 | How's it going? Good. Good. My name's Emily. I am 28 years old, and my wedding is this weekend weekend and I'm wondering how to handle my parents |
| 0:22.7 | mean girling my very soon to be husband. |
| 0:25.9 | How do they go about doing that? |
| 0:27.9 | Well, it's not necessarily direct conflict, but just passing remarks and just like an overall |
| 0:37.3 | lack of interest in getting to know him. |
| 0:40.3 | It's been a couple of years that we've been dating and they're still at the stage of like |
| 0:44.7 | he seems like a nice guy. And I feel like we should be beyond that point now. So I'm just wondering, |
| 0:52.8 | I don't think the wedding will be a problem. I'm sure everything will go fine. So I'm just wondering, I don't think the wedding will be a problem. I'm sure everything will go |
| 0:57.0 | fine. But I'm wondering what this looks like as we get into marriage. Well, what are you most |
| 1:03.7 | afraid of? Like what impact do your parents have on your life and specifically marriage? Right. So me and my soon-to-be husband, |
| 1:14.9 | my fiance, we really connected on the fact that we are both like very family-oriented people. |
| 1:22.4 | When we first started dating, it was my family does everything together. And he was the same way. And we were |
| 1:29.1 | really excited to like, you know, participate in that together. And then as things progressed, |
| 1:36.9 | his family was the way that he had painted the picture of like being super family oriented, |
| 1:41.9 | doing everything together. And my parents like really took a |
| 1:44.8 | back seat. I felt like we used to do everything together. But now that he's in the picture, |
| 1:51.3 | things have gotten kind of awkward and like touch and go. And I'm just really trying to like |
| 1:58.1 | grapple with the fact that like maybe my family isn't as close as I thought |
| 2:01.8 | we originally were. So is it, do you think it's things changed or you think it's more maybe you |
| 2:08.4 | weren't as close as you were? Or maybe it just looks different. Maybe it looks different. |
| 2:15.2 | There's just been some like passing remarks that I wonder if it's sitting on their minds as well. |
| 2:24.0 | Like, for example, when we talked about taking pictures at the wedding, my mom wanted to make sure |
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