I am so excited about today's topic. I have yet to talk to anybody about in-laws on my podcast.

And my podcast is over two years old. And this is one of the top requested topics because

in-laws, you know, you know, right? Okay, so I'm excited about this topic.

It's going to get juicy. I'm also a little nervous because you never want to hurt anyone's

feelings, right? But before we dive in, Stephen and Aaron, do you mind introducing yourselves

and tell me a little bit about what you guys do?

Well, yeah, so we're Stephen and Aaron Mitchell and we run a company called Couples Counseling for Parents.

And we are authors, speakers, and coaches for couples who are specifically in the parenting stage of their relationship.

And our whole goal is to give couples in this phase and stay. specifically in the parenting stage of their relationship.

And our whole goal is to give couples in this phase and stage of their relationship research

informed psychologically sound information about how to have strong, lasting relationships.

Yes.

And one of the major things we hear about also is we're doing really well, you know,

like we're making it through the stress. Our kids are great. Life is great. But our in-laws are this

massive gap between us. Like there's this wedge. There's this topic we can't bro. The only thing we

argue about is the only time we argue is when somebody's parents are coming or if whatever.

It's a big deal. That's so interesting. I was going to ask you actually before we dive into all

my questions, I was going to ask how common it is for couples that you see to bring

that topic up and how common it is for them to argue about in-laws and boundaries and stuff like

that. So it's pretty common, you would say? I would say it's so common that we, so we recently

wrote a book called Too Tired to Fight. Two chapters of that book are about family and relationships and in-laws and toxic relationships

with in-laws and how to set boundaries.

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