My Mother-In-Law Criticizes My Wife

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Jim doesn't appreciate the awkward position his mother-in-law puts him in when she speaks negatively about her daughter to him. Email questions or comments: drlaura@drlaura.com - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:12.4	Kim, welcome to the program. on Sirius XM Triumph 111.
0:12.6	Kim, welcome to the program.
0:14.6	Hello.
0:16.6	What can I do for you?
0:17.8	I'm nervous.
0:23.0	Sorry.
0:25.0	All right.
0:26.0	So, uh, I have a dilemma.
0:32.0	I am feeling some tension to build up between my mother-in-law and my daughter and my wife or daughter.
0:42.2	And I just wanted to hopefully talk to you and get some resolution. So we recently went on a family vacation and my wife is in general a pretty high energy person.
1:07.0	We've got three young kids and she is one hell of a mom.
1:12.0	She's my best friend and I love her so much. And I'm trying to protect her here.
1:18.0	But I also have an outstanding relationship with my mother-in-law. And so in the past, my
1:27.8	mother-in-law has come and talked to me many times instead of talking to her I guess because maybe I'm more
1:37.2	approachable or whatever the case but she knows that she tends to rub my right rub my wife the wrong way in a judgmental fashion.
1:48.6	So we go down to Destin for vacation pretty recently and had a pretty good time. But I guess they
1:57.6	noticed that my wife was very high energy, so much so that she is now just trying to figure out what's going
2:09.8	on and she confronted me just kind of one-on-one and you know
2:17.7	She said if you want to keep this between us that's fine and I said no I I I I really don't know what you're talking about yet.
2:24.2	Your wife's mother is bitching about what?
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