When You’re Not Getting Along with In-Laws
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In-law relationships can be some of the most complex after you get married. Dr. Gary Chapman joins Jim Daly to talk about responding in a Christ-like manner when your in-laws are not treating you fairly. Also, Erin Smalley discusses how this is a common issue for a lot of couples, and why you're not alone if this is your story.
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| 0:00.0 | Your marriage can be healed. |
| 0:03.3 | A hope restored marriage intensive from focus on the family can transform you and your spouse's relationship in just a few days. |
| 0:12.4 | We'll go to this thing, but this is it. |
| 0:14.7 | If this doesn't work, we're done. |
| 0:16.3 | What we have now, it's way more than we ever had before and that I ever even dreamed of in the marriage. |
| 0:23.3 | Discover more at hoperestored.com. That's hope restored.com. |
| 0:30.9 | Well, it's a new month, and all month long, we're to be talking about conflict in marriage |
| 0:39.7 | and how to handle various conflict situations, and hopefully along the way you're going to find |
| 0:44.9 | biblical help to de-escalate some of these conflicts and manage them well. |
| 0:49.8 | I'm John Fuller, along with Greg and Aaron Smalley, who head up our focus on the family |
| 0:53.7 | marriage department. |
| 0:54.7 | And John, do you notice how we've paired conflict with fireworks? |
| 0:59.2 | Ooh, that was the producer's intentional choice. |
| 1:02.4 | How to create freedom within your conflict. See? |
| 1:05.4 | Oh, that's good. I appreciate that. |
| 1:07.1 | I wish it was my idea. |
| 1:07.8 | So conflict in marriage, I mean, you all, counsel couples, there's no shortage of conflict. |
| 1:13.6 | I've got to guess that one of the biggest things to deal with is in-laws, right? |
| 1:19.0 | I mean, I don't know if you've got stats or experience or story. |
| 1:22.6 | You probably have everything. |
| 1:23.7 | Oh, the research 100% agrees with you. |
| 1:26.2 | As a matter of fact, they've done so many studies around this. |
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