This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success

Podcast.

That's Davachka with We're Leaving.

I don't know if you saw the really cute movie that came out a few years ago, Little Miss Sunshine,

but Davachka did the soundtrack to that whole movie. And so now when I was thinking of what would be a fun kind of song

that really captures the spirit of families, I now think of Devachka, just because of that movie.

So I am back this week, as planned, with some information on how to manage your in-law relationships successfully. I really wanted to do this podcast today

because in general, no matter what time of year this is, in-law relationships, you know, how we

deal with each other's extended families is a real point of friction for many couples.

It's something that is just so emotionally laden and triggering for people that it's hard

sometimes to compromise and hear another person's perspective when they're talking about your

mom or whatever.

So in general it's hard, but also

the time that I'm recording this podcast is just before Thanksgiving. We're coming into the

holiday season and also off the heels of a traumatic kind of year where many people have very

strong opinions about what happened or what should have happened and going into holiday events with

each other's families where there might be passionate conversations politically and things might

just be a little bit more emotionally charged than usual. So that is my hope for us today is to talk

about factors related to that and what you and your partner can do to negotiate this

well and be a couple through this and escape the holiday season with your relationship intact

and also with your family relationships intact. So that is what we are up to today. This is important because couples can

really struggle about how to stay in relationship with each other while they are figuring out

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