Episode 49 - Marriage Myth #9: Your In-Laws Have To Love You

Get A Room Podcast

On this episode we talk about being in quarantine for 60 days and why Rochelle had a breakdown and cried twice in one day. We also discuss our next marriage myth to decide if your in-laws have to love you, and other difficult things with parents.

Specific topic discussed in this episode:

• (0:50) Two months worth of quarantine for us.
• (1:20) Rochelle cried because the stress and frustration of everything caught up with her.
• (5:45) Rochelle cried again while watching a TV show that brought up hard feelings from childhood.
• (7:30) Good news? The Anti-body study maybe? Last day of new school work.
• (9:00) Marriage Myth #9: Do your in-laws have to love you?
• (10:30) We discuss the relationships we have with each set of our parents.
• (13:30) Rochelle discusses the difficult relationship she has with her parents, especially her mom.
• (17:00) We talk about how we both have a better relationship with Scott’s parents than Rochelle’s, even though we disagree on religion and politics. We have somehow learned to appreciate the other parts of the relationship to make it okay.
• (23:00) In-laws don’t have to love you, and you don’t need them to in order to be happy. Your relationship with your spouse is more important than the one you have with your in-laws and even your parents.
• (25:30) Rochelle’s parents didn’t like Scott because he didn’t marry her right out of high school.
• (29:00) We talk about what kind of in-laws we hope to be.
• (30:30) Our daughter, Echo wants to be a mermaid so we did some steps with her to become one. We’ll let you know how it all went down next week.