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The Real Marriage Podcast

How to Confront Your Toxic In-Laws

The Real Marriage Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Parenting, Christianity, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Kids & Family

4.8827 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Our relationships with extended family seem to demand a front-row seat to our lives every holiday season. End the conflict once and for all with some wisdom I've gained the hard way over many years of being a husband and father!

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0:00.0

Pastor Mark Driscoll here, welcoming you to the podcast. I've been teaching the Bible for more than 30 years,

0:07.6

and real faith is an extraordinary ministry with a great team. It's not a big team, but they're making a big difference at a big impact. And we'd love you to preferably consider partnering with us, especially with a one-time or ongoing recurring gift.

0:23.0

All the proceeds will help us get Bible teaching out, and our hope, prayer, and goal is next

0:28.6

year to get to total reach, impressions included, of a billion plus people hearing about Jesus

0:36.3

Christ through Bible teaching. Your prayers, your partnership

0:40.3

would help us to do more and more and more. And so in advance, thank you for your partnership.

0:48.8

Howdy? Pastor Mark here. Welcome to our whiteboard sessions. We've got a series on family systems. Happily

0:56.4

Never After How to Leave and Cleave. We've got a workbook with it. And today we're in studio.

1:00.8

And we're going to jump into some behind the scenes content on some of the most popular

1:07.2

questions that were asked. And so here's how it worked. I think it's maybe started in Genesis series, posted a little clip of things that I tell my now

1:16.2

married kids, and that is that when they get married, he's not joining her family, she's not

1:21.2

joining his family, they're starting a brand new family.

1:24.1

And they get to decide kind of how are we going to do family, where are we going to live,

1:33.9

go to church, raise our kids, all those big issues, due for the holidays and vacations. And it blew up.

1:40.0

Some 60 million people online thought that was interesting. So that led to this series and it's more pastoral and counseling and coaching and kind of putting the dad hat on because now I've got

1:45.0

three married kids and two grandsons and so we took kind of the top questions that came in from around

1:51.7

the world and we'll answer some of those for you I don't honestly remember what they are because

1:58.1

I'm 53 and I'm starting to forget things. So who's going first,

2:01.4

guys? I can go first. All right. How do you share with your mother-in-law without offense?

2:07.7

How do you share with your mother-in-law without offending you while we're officially right into it?

2:12.7

So my wife, Grace, and I, we've been faithfully married 31 years. We've been together 35 years. And

2:20.8

sometimes you have problems with your family because your family has a bad system. That can be

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