How To Have A Healthy Biblical Relationship With Your In-laws

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About This Episode When we say 'I do,' we are saying yes to the person we have fallen in love with, but that person comes from a family, and part of marriage is learning to respect both sets of family. In-laws and extended family can be a source of contention for couples, and Aaron and Jennifer get asked about it often. In this episode they look at Scripture on the significance of being one in marriage, talk about setting boundaries together, and share how setting boundaries with both sets of parents made their own marriage healthier. Jennifer also shares a dream from their early years in Florida of an umbilical cord still stretching back to California.

About Aaron & Jennifer Smith Aaron and Jennifer Smith are the founders of Marriage After God and authors of Husband After God, Wife After God, and Marriage After God. Married since 2007 and raising six children in Bend, Oregon, they started Husband Revolution and Unveiled Wife to share what God was teaching them, not from a place of having it figured out, but as fellow travelers pointing couples back to Jesus.

In This Episode Leave and cleave — Genesis 2:24 and becoming a new family unit Boundaries — deciding together how much access and influence parents have A unified front — going to your parents together with love and respect Outside looking in — why parents can offer wisdom but don't have inherent authority in your marriage The umbilical cord dream — how Jennifer learned to let go emotionally Be Christlike — being a light to your in-laws whether or not they are believers Pray and provide — praying for your in-laws and caring for relatives with wisdom (1 Timothy 5:8) Honor, not obey — what Ephesians 6:1-2 means once you're married

Scripture Referenced Genesis 2:24 Ephesians 5:31 Matthew 19:5 Mark 10 John 17 1 Timothy 5:8 Ephesians 6:1-2

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