Janelle Riddle: Setting Expectations with Your MIL

The Mom Room

Renee Reina & Podcast Nation

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

EP459: Renee is back this week talking to Janelle Riddle, who recently went viral on TikTok for a post aimed at the complex (and sometimes toxic) mother-in-law/daughter-in-law dynamic. No doubt that this can be a tricky relationship to navigate, especially with the generational differences in parenting that exist now. But there’s always room for common ground, and of course this relationship can be perfectly healthy if there are honest discussions on both sides. Janelle talks about setting expectations and clear boundaries, especially during the stressful postpartum period, to maintain a good relationship. Tune in for some insightful chats about both women’s experiences with their own MILs and why social media has given them a new platform to share and heal from their experiences.

Follow Janelle on Tiktok and Insta @heyjanellemarie

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0:21.4	There is so much food misinformation and disinformation out there, and it can feel impossible
0:27.9	to know what's real and what's BS.
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0:35.3	their body, and themselves, which in my opinion is the
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1:14.1	It's like that. Uh- sick. I feel like everyone I know is getting sick right now.
1:21.8	So many things are going around from like common colds to kids vomiting and being sick in that way.
1:27.4	And I'm just like, oh my God, oh my God, please, please. I put a vitamin on Milo's plate this morning.
1:28.5	I was like, here, please take your vitamin. Like, don't go near people at school and wash your hands. He was like, what are you talking about? I'm like, never mind. Anywho, on today's episode, we are talking about a topic that doesn't get talked about much. And that is the daughter-in-law, mother-in-law relationship. I had so many questions for Janelle. And honestly, I was having
1:47.0	epiphanies as we were talking about why in our culture, especially on, like in movies and on TV,
1:55.1	and that's always the case. Like even when we talk about pregnancy or postpartum, rarely is it an accurate depiction of what it
2:03.3	really is like? Or it's a super exaggerated depiction of whatever they're talking about, which then
2:11.4	just furthers the trope or this mindset that, oh, daughter-in-laws and mother-in-laws don't get along,
2:20.3	and that's just like going to always be a strained relationship.
2:23.8	Immediately what comes to mind is the movie Monster in-law.
2:27.3	But to be honest, it's with Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda.
2:30.3	It's such a good movie.
2:32.3	But to my point, it's like this very exaggerated depiction of a
2:39.3	strained daughter-in-law, mother-in-law relationship. I am talking to Janelle Riddle today,
2:44.4	and I came across one of her TikToks not too long ago. I think I re-shared it to the mom-room account.
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