How To Improve Your Relationship With Your In-Laws
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Julia Austin
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Present a united front
If boundaries are the issue, you’ll need your partner to have your back. “Get on the same page with your spouse, whatever that looks like,” Dumaz says. “Maybe it’s about visitation, hosting events, child-rearing, how much time the kids spend with the grandparents. So when the boundary has to be set, you two come as a united front, and not as your partner saying, ‘My partner said this.’ Then you become the outsider. And you already feel that way as an in-law. The direct child talking to his parents has to use words like ‘we’ to let them know ‘We are a team and we are on the same page.’ When he says ‘My wife said,’ he alienates you.”
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