Loving Your Spouse, Loving Your In-Laws

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

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Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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There's an old saying that goes, "You don't just marry your spouse, you marry his or her family." But how do you work through a situation where a relationship with your in-laws is strained? John, Greg and Erin offer some encouragement to couples who are struggling to get along with their in-laws. Featuring Gary Thomas.

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0:00.0	Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't
0:04.7	grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I
0:10.2	take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I
0:14.4	ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't
0:18.8	shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love
0:23.6	with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app
0:28.3	today.
0:35.7	There is a saying something like this, you don't just marry your spouse, you also
0:40.8	marry his or her family. And certainly that's been the case for us. My wife has
0:45.1	married into an upper Midwestern family that has certain idiosyncrasies and
0:50.2	connections and rules and rhythms. And I married a Texas family that is as
0:56.4	largest Texas and very diverse and wonderful and rich in many many ways. I'm John
1:02.6	Fuller here in the studio with Aaron and Greg Smalley. They lead our focus on the
1:06.4	family marriage department and Greg, I'm sure you've heard that phrase and I
1:10.8	suspect you found that true as well. Yeah, the reality is I can't ignore the family
1:16.9	relationships will impact me, Aaron, our marriage. I mean it's all gonna have an
1:22.6	impact. And so I can't have my head buried in the sand pretending that really
1:26.8	won't have an impact at all. However, the good news is that we over time we can
1:32.7	absolutely create our own family culture. And so Aaron and I have to evaluate who
1:39.5	do we want to be? What do we want our unique family to look like and behave and
1:44.4	in all those things? And then you know in the end Aaron is my top priority. My
1:51.0	vow is to Aaron and Aaron alone. And so I always want her to know that she's
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