Issues With the In-Laws: Episode 337
EmPowered Couples with The Freemans
Aaron & Jocelyn Freeman
5.0 • 589 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Your family is a source of support, love, and acceptance. Now there are certainly times that our perception of actions from family members make us forget those underlying intentions. Of course this can be even more true when you are interacting (or dealing with) your partner's family members (your in-laws)!
There is always the grand idea that two sides of a family can come together and just magnify the sense of community, family, and support, but that doesn't always happen. It can be common that each of your own families (and how you individually interact with them) can be a source of conflict, even between you and your partner. In this episode we dive into some of these sources of conflict and 5 particular patterns that you should avoid as to not make your partner out to be the bad guy with your family!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Empower Couples podcast. We're here you get modern, non-boring relationship |
| 0:05.7 | advice for you and your partner to communicate like pros, fight smarter, and stay in the same team. |
| 0:11.3 | No matter the challenge that you face, I am one of your host, Aaron Freeman. And I'm Jocelyn Freeman, |
| 0:15.1 | but you all just know it says the Freeman's. Welcome to this episode about issues with the in-laws. |
| 0:20.8 | Oh, the in-laws. |
| 0:22.2 | And this has come up quite a bit. |
| 0:24.5 | Why didn't you say, oh, the in-laws? |
| 0:26.4 | Oh, sorry, you're right. |
| 0:27.9 | The in-law. |
| 0:28.8 | No, actually, we love our families. |
| 0:31.5 | This is not about us bashing our families. |
| 0:33.9 | However, this topic has been a source of conflict or tension or just frustration, |
| 0:40.8 | not only in multiple sessions with couples, our private clients, in the last couple of weeks. |
| 0:46.1 | And I think part of that is that there's been like spring break and some travel and seeing |
| 0:50.1 | families and things like that. It's also come up with friends, not going to name anyone |
| 0:54.7 | personally, as well as we have had our fair share of navigating some different family members. |
| 1:01.4 | We, of course, want to keep, you know, their information private, not give way too much, but we have |
| 1:05.6 | listened to the podcast. Some of them do, but we have had our challenges and different dynamics. |
| 1:12.6 | And it's very real that we have had to make sure we are on the same team. |
| 1:19.1 | You and I, that you and I are rock solid because obviously our extended family, |
| 1:25.3 | and this can also include friends in some ways. You can think about |
| 1:28.1 | that throughout the episode, but our family, we obviously have a strong emotional tie to them. |
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