What do I do when I see my mom favoring my sister-in-law who has a personality disorder?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In this episode, I coach Kellie and address the question, “What do I do when I see my mom favoring my sister-in-law who has a personality disorder?” Although Kellie has repeatedly set boundaries with her mother that relate to her sister-in-law, Kellie’s mother has not respected those boundaries. This has left Kellie feeling like she cannot trust her mother.Kellie shares that her mother has been self-absorbed throughout Kellie’s life; that her needs often came second to her mother’s. She sees ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:43.0	with tools to find healing.
0:45.2	I am so excited to welcome Kelly to the show today.
0:48.5	Welcome, Kelly.
0:50.0	Thank you so much for having me.
0:52.4	I am so super excited to be here. I have been a fan of yours since listening to your music. I think I started like 14, 15 years old, started listening to you. So it's kind of fun to see you now. I'm a familiar voice then for you, huh? Yes, very much.
1:09.8	Wonderful. Well, what is your question for me today?
1:13.1	So my question is, what do I do when I feel and I've seen that my mom is favoring and catering to a sister-in-law who has a personality disorder.
1:29.3	Okay.
1:30.4	What have you tried?
1:32.5	How have you tried to address this?
1:35.0	So I've tried a few things.
1:38.4	You know, I think before I tried kind of in a roundabout kind of way, you know, mom, have you noticed? I've kind of noticed
1:46.8	these things about our sister-in-law, my sister-in-law, her daughter-in-law. And I don't really like
1:55.4	that. Have you noticed that? Do you like that? Is it okay with you that she kind of treats you that way or that she
2:04.2	treats us that way? And her response is usually something like, you know, I've noticed that,
2:13.5	but I try not to let it bother me. Or I've noticed that, but I try and just kind of sweep it under the red because I would rather have a relationship than no relationship at all with her or with, you know, my brother.
2:29.9	So I've talked with her about that.
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