Is putting my spouse before my kids the best way to manage my parent/spouse relationships?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Jennifer is a mother of 1 and a widow who recently remarried. Growing up, she always felt that her parents had a great relationship because they put each other first. Now that she is remarried, she wants to know if this approach is the best way to make sure everyone in her home is taken care of.Instead of always setting one person before another, I encourage Jennifer to look for ways to balance her relationships with her daughter and husband. Rather than thinking of one coming before another,...

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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 faith. 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.
0:45.1	I'm so excited to welcome to the podcast.
0:49.0	Welcome.
0:50.2	Thank you.
0:51.1	Thank you so much for having me.
0:52.5	I'm excited to talk about my question.
0:55.3	Good. Good. Yeah. What is your question today?
0:58.4	So it's something that I have honestly reflected on a lot of my adult life and being married.
1:05.7	And my dynamic is different than most, I would say, in regards to my question. So I am a widow. So I married
1:14.3	the boy I'd love since I was 12. We've been married for five years, had a little girl. He passed
1:19.9	away when I was 24 after like I said, being married for five years. And then I was alone for four
1:26.5	years. I just recently got remarried. But all of that, anyways,
1:30.9	I say all of this because my dynamic is obviously, again, different than most people's. But one
1:36.4	thing that I observed growing up was that my parents had a phenomenal relationship. And I think
1:43.1	one thing that made it phenomenal was they always put
1:45.8	each other first, right? So I always knew if I was in trouble, even if I was in the right,
1:51.4	my dad was going to take my mom's side. You know, he's going to back, he's going to back her up.
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