by Deanna | Aug 5, 2013 | Daughter-in-Law, Mother-in-Law, Relationships
Change, regardless of what we attach it to can be tricky. The problems that have come up in your mother-in-law or daughter-in-law relationship didn’t happen overnight. They didn’t magically appear. If you think about it, when you met each other there was...
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by Deanna | Jul 29, 2013 | Daughter-in-Law, In-laws, Mother-in-Law
When was the last time you thought about your mother-in-law or daughter-in-law and thought something positive? Can’t remember the last time? Never? It’s easy to focus on the negative things. After all, it’s those things that drive you crazy, right?...
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by Deanna | Jul 15, 2013 | Daughter-in-Law, Help, In-laws, Mother-in-Law
Reading your emails, talking with you on the phone, at seminars, presentations, etc., I hear a recurring theme. The struggle you’re having with your in-law feels so big and so looming that it’s hard to know what to do. This feels awful! No one likes being here and so...
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by Deanna | Jul 1, 2013 | Family, In-laws, Relationships
Now that we are in the midst of summer many of you are getting ready to leave on a family vacation. Often times this includes extended family. Whether you’re traveling with in-laws, siblings and their family, or even traveling with friends, you want your trip to be...
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by Deanna | Jun 19, 2013 | Help
Last week I shared with you how marital issues and mother-in-law issues sometimes get mixed together to the point that it is hard to know when something is a marital issue and when something is a MIL/DIL issue. When these issues get compounded, neither one ends up...
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by Deanna | Jun 12, 2013 | Daughter-in-Law, Husband, Marriage, Mother-in-Law, Relationships
As I’ve spoken to many daughters-in-law I’ve learned that knowing when an issue is a marital issue and when it is an issue with her mother-in-law can be quite confusing. And it is! Sometimes it may start out as a mother-in-law issue but then it shifts...
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by Deanna | Jun 3, 2013 | Daughter-in-Law, Mother-in-Law
How many times have you been upset with your in-law to where you can’t get what she said or did out of your head? You keep thinking about it, stewing about it, playing it over and over until you feel like exploding. You tell your friends about it, your family about...
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by Deanna | May 20, 2013 | Daughter-in-Law, In-laws, Mother-in-Law
When you find yourself struggling in your MIL/DIL relationship do you feel like giving up? Maybe you don’t even want to try to do anything because you start thinking, What’s the use? She won’t change anyway. Maybe you go in a different direction with your thoughts,...
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by Deanna | May 6, 2013 | Daughter-in-Law, Family, Mother-in-Law, Relationships
Mother’s Day is almost here and I’m sure for many of you the tension is building and the feelings are churning. Some of you, I know, dread this day because it reinforces what you don’t have – a good relationship with your mother-in-law or daughter-in-law –...
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by Deanna | Apr 22, 2013 | Daughter-in-Law, In-laws, Mother-in-Law
I just got back from a much-needed vacation and something magical happened while we were there. Although it took me a few days, I eventually de-stressed and settled into a wonderfully relaxed state. My husband and I did what we wanted to do when we wanted to do it...
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