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Relationship Advice

How To Navigate Family Drama

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

RELATIONSHIP ACADEMY IS NOW ACCEPTING MEMBERS Totally free until the end of the year! Access to courses and coaching with the hosts themselves. ⁠CLICK HERE TO JOIN⁠ In this episode, Colter, Lauren, and Cayla unpack the messy reality of family differences—why gatherings can trigger us, how long-held “rules of the game” shape family conflict, and what we can do to stay grounded when things get heated. They explore common sources of family drama—holidays, parenting, politics, religion, and generational expectations—and how guilt, resentment, and old patterns keep us stuck. Ultimately, the conversation centers on learning to slow down, identify our triggers, set boundaries with compassion, and find ways to stay connected even when we disagree. Main Talking Points: - Common sources of family conflict (holidays, parenting, money, politics) - “Rules of the game” in family systems - Understanding triggers and nervous system responses - Balancing boundaries with connection - Compassionate communication and timing - What you can—and can’t—control in family relationships Give Me Discounts! NOCD.COM - If you're tired of unwanted thoughts affecting your relationships and other areas of your life, visit nocd.com Audible - Visit audible.com/janeaustin to get listen to this incredible reading rendition of Pride & Prejudice Skylight - Visit skylightcal.com/IDO for $30 off your 15 inch calendar.  Function - 160+ Lab Tests for $365. Learn more & get started at www.functionhealth.com/IDO Amazfit - Visit www.amazfit.com/IDO to get 10% off Spark My Relationship Course: Get $100 off our online course. Visit SparkMyRelationship.com/Unlock for our special offer just for our I Do Podcast listeners! If you love this episode (and our podcast!), would you mind giving us a review in iTunes? It would mean the world to us and we promise it only takes a minute. Many thanks in advance! – Colter, Cayla, & Lauren Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Okay. If your family is anything like mine, I'm sure you all share all the same values.

0:54.7

Everybody gets along because they have the same expectations for relationships, time commitment, social gatherings.

0:59.6

Conversations surrounding religion are easy because you all ascribe to the same faith traditions and take part in those when you spend time together. People don't get their feelings hurt

1:03.8

when it comes to birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, or other memorable occasions because

1:08.0

everybody has the same expectations for how everybody will show up,

1:12.4

what they will be wearing, and how long they will stay slash if come at all.

1:16.2

And discussions involving politics?

1:18.1

Easy.

1:18.7

We all voted the same way and feel confident that the youngest generation of the family

1:22.3

will be raised to follow the same correct political beliefs, not to mention the aforementioned beliefs around

1:28.9

faith, family, and the Gregorian calendar. Now, at this point, you probably find yourself

1:34.9

in one of a few camps. You're about to turn this episode off if you haven't already because your

1:39.6

family is nothing like this and you have come to realize how obtuse and tone deaf the host is. Or you're

1:45.9

queued in because you realize the irony of how nobody's family operates this way and certainly not

1:51.8

the one that you come from. Or if there does happen to be some small minority of you that does exist

1:56.7

in a family like this, drop me a line because I'd love to know the secret.

2:06.4

So for all of you who has a family who doesn't see eye to eye on, I don't know, every single issue in the world, this one's for you.

2:10.1

I was just making eyes at Kayla through that entire vignette because we picked up so quickly

2:15.4

like, oh, this is culture's move where he kind of does the ironic thing. Yeah, it's one of my go-toes. It's like, let's say what it's not. I used one of your moves in a group last night when I was like, and everybody knows that the best way to change somebody's mind is to criticize them. Yeah, yeah, did didn't land. Yeah, everybody was on board.

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