How can I help my kids foster a relationship with a family member I don’t get along with?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In this episode, I coach Kacey and address the question “How can I help my kids foster a relationship with a family member I don’t get along with?” Kacey has a strained relationship with her mother-in-law, but she doesn’t want their relationship to influence how her children interact with their grandmother.As we talk, it becomes clear that Kacey’s worries are deeper than her kids’ relationship with their grandma. We dive into her desire for approval that may be making her relationship with he...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your fate. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:43.0	with tools to find healing.
0:45.2	I'm so excited to welcome Casey to the podcast today. Welcome, Casey.
0:50.2	Thank you. I'm so happy to be here.
0:53.0	Well, I'm happy to have you. What is your question for me today?
0:57.7	Okay, so my question is, how do I help my kids foster a relationship with a family member that I don't get along with super well.
1:14.2	Okay.
1:14.8	I guess my first question for you is why do you feel like you need to foster a relationship
1:19.8	with your kids and this person?
1:22.9	Well, because they are a grandparent.
1:25.7	Okay.
1:26.3	All right.
1:27.2	So I wish that the situation were a little bit different, and I have hope that it can become
1:34.7	different in the future.
1:36.8	But my mother-in-law and I don't get along very well, and I feel like it is getting to a point where my kids are growing up and I want them to feel
1:51.0	like they can like, you know, depend on her and talk to her and have a good relationship
1:57.6	with her, even though I don't have that kind of relationship with her.
2:02.3	And I don't want my experience to become their experience as well.
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