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Topics: Blended Family, Parent Issues, Depression, In Laws, Adult Children,
Hosts: Steve Arterburn, Dr. Dave Stoop, Dr. Jill Hubbard
Caller Questions:
- Should I live near my husband’s work or my kid’s dad?
- I feel like a child around my mother.
- I’m depressed. Why can’t I sleep and eat?
- Why won’t my daughter-in-law answer the phone?
- Why would my son’s family spend more time with her parents than with us?
- Should my sister-in-law be dictating that my brother’s old girlfriend stay away?
Suggested Resources:
Walking Into Walls
Forgiving Our Parents Forgiving Ourselves
You Are What You Think
Link to New Life Live: July 31, 2012
July 31, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Oh good grief. I’m so tired of callers like Susan who just continue to prattle on while the hosts try to be heard and have to yell over the caller. And in Susan’s case she clearly didn’t reall want their advice. She just wanted to talk and talk and talk and talk in the hopes of the hosts justifying her behavior and telling her what SHE wanted to hear.
August 1, 2012 at 9:28 am
I think that it could be a real problem with the woman who wanted to move away husband. Leaving and cleaving means your husband is the first priority over your extended family. She cannot provide for her husband’s physical needs if she is not there and that can open a horrible door of temptation. Her daughter can get to know her Dad better after she graduates. Better to just get her husband to agree to more family visits as was supposed to happen.
August 2, 2012 at 8:51 am
I’m in a similar situation as the last caller but I’m in the sister in laws shoes and the ex girl friend is my husbands wife.. how do I deal with that? She has been pushing for a relationship with my husband and not caring about having anything to do with me. What do I do? Is it safe to have any kind of relationship with her and him? I’m confused as to what a safe relationship would look like. they had sex and everything while she was married to my husbands brother(before I met my husband. what do I do?
August 2, 2012 at 8:53 am
I meant to say my husbands BROTHERS wife. so we are all family and what is ok and what isn’t with her bad attitude and pushing having a relationship with my husband her affair?