Love, In-Laws, and Leftovers: Navigating Holiday Conflicts Together

Previa Alliance Podcast

Previa Alliance Team

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Parenting, Mental Health, Kids & Family

5.0 • 85 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The holidays can be magical—but they can also bring out family drama, money stress, and fights over whose parents to visit first. Sound familiar? In this episode, Sarah sits down with Erin and Stephen Mitchell from Couples Counseling for Parents to talk about the most common conflicts couples face this time of year. From juggling in-laws to setting boundaries and keeping your partnership strong, they share practical tools to help you stay on the same team and actually enjoy the season togethe...

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0:00.0	Hi, guys. Welcome back to the Privy Alliance podcast. We are in the holiday seasons. Okay. We're filling it and so are you. So I have brought back our favorite couples counseling for our parents. Hello, Aaron and Stephen Mitchell,
0:21.7	who they've walked us through so many other things. So why when they walk us through the holidays?
0:25.8	Welcome, guys. We're so excited. Thank you so much for having us. Yes, we're happy to be here.
0:30.8	This is such a big topic. We're really looking forward to tentatively, looking forward to talking
0:36.6	about this. Yes, we are tentatively,
0:39.4	but it is important. It's so hard to, Sarah, I was reading, you sent some questions ahead,
0:44.2	you know, and said, hey, these are some things we could think about. And I was reading through
0:47.5	the questions, I was like, these are so hard to answer. I was like this. And then I kept thinking,
0:53.3	I was like, why is this so hard? Because it
0:58.0	is one of the most tension filled topics and times that we experience with couples without a
1:06.1	doubt. Certainly. And I think the simple answer to that is it matters. We all care.
1:11.2	Yeah.
1:11.6	We do.
1:12.3	It matters.
1:13.9	Well, to rip the Band-Aid off, we love transparency from you guys.
1:17.2	So let's bring up something from your own personal life to just really dive into it.
1:21.7	Is there been, because like you said, brings out the messy of us, brings out the best, the
1:26.1	worst.
1:27.2	Loyalty lies, you know, happens there of my family versus yours.
1:32.6	Can you share something that you guys experienced in your own marriage with the holidays and how
1:37.3	you work through it?
1:39.1	Yes.
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