by Deanna | Oct 28, 2013 | Daughter, Daughter-in-Law, Family, Husband, In-laws, Marriage, Mother, Mother-in-Law, Relationships
Last blog post I talked about “three little words” that can make a huge difference in your MIL/DIL relationship. Those three words – I am sorry. As I said in the post, these words take a lot of courage to say. You are vulnerable and it is scary to say them. If you are...
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by Deanna | Oct 14, 2013 | Daughter-in-Law, Family, Marriage, Mother-in-Law, Relationships
I often hear people talk about the words that are the hardest to say. What’s interesting is when people talk about these three words, they recognize how important they are, but have all the reasons in the world why they can’t say them. What is even more interesting is...
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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 | Feb 18, 2013 | Daughter-in-Law, Family, Husband, In-laws, Marriage, Relationships
More and more I hear from women about how their daughter-in-law only focuses on her side of the family and acts as though her husband has no family at all. She decides, for whatever reason, that his family is not a group of people she wants to spend time with, which...
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by Deanna | Feb 4, 2013 | Husband, Marriage, Relationships
Valentine’s Day is almost here, and I noticed the ads started in January! Right after Christmas the stores filled their shelves with cards, candy and all the reminders that you need to do something special for that “special someone” in your life. You can’t get away...
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by Deanna | Jan 22, 2013 | Daughter-in-Law, Marriage, Mother-in-Law, Relationships
Sharing is something we are taught at a very young age, starting with sharing our toys. Our parents told us that sharing is a nice thing to do, and that it will make us feel good—and it does. So over the years, we’ve shared not only our toys with playmates, but also...
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