Positive Parenting Blog

Dealing With Your In Laws Relationship problems with your extended family often begin when you’re married with kids When you fall in love with someone, life seems great Then you meet your partner’s family and soon enough your in laws become part of your life too. In the ideal world, you would seamlessly slot into your partners extended family and vice versa. Unfortunately this is not the case for many couples and relationship problems often arise, especially after you are married with kids. One of the main reasons for this is that the family dynamics need to change when a new partner settles into a family as a new family ‘team’ is formed.  When you become a ‘couple’, you essentially combine one set of upbringing with another and hope for the best Relationship problems often arise when a new partner does not seem acceptable to a family. In other words the new partners lifestyle, personality, beliefs or occupation are not accepted by the extended family. This can cause conflict for t...