{"id":7035,"date":"2017-06-12T17:15:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/healthy-couples-deal-laws\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T07:19:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T07:19:44","slug":"healthy-couples-deal-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/healthy-couples-deal-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"How Healthy Couples Deal with Their In-Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[M]ost people struggle with in-law issues on some level,\u201d said Meredith Hansen, Psy.D, a clinical psychologist who works with couples in Newport, Calif. For instance, you might feel like your in-laws don\u2019t accept you or they\u2019re overly critical of your spouse. Or they have an opinion on everything from where you live to how you parent your kids.<\/p>\n<p>Having difficulties with your in-laws doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re in an unhealthy relationship, said F. Diane Barth, LCSW, a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s similar to conflict. Having <a href=\"http:\/\/psychcentral.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/09\/05\/how-healthy-couples-manage-conflict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conflict<\/a> doesn\u2019t derail a relationship. But handling it badly can. And the same is true for difficulties with your in-laws. What matters is how you handle these challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how healthy couples deal with their in-laws.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psychcentral.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/10\/08\/how-healthy-couples-deal-with-their-in-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read more from\u00a0psychcentral.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[M]ost people struggle with in-law issues on some level,\u201d said Meredith Hansen, Psy.D, a clinical psychologist who works with couples in Newport, Calif. For instance, you might feel like your in-laws don\u2019t accept you or they\u2019re overly critical of your spouse. Or they have an opinion on everything from where you live to how you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"age":[],"content-type":[],"persona":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9388,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions\/9388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7035"},{"taxonomy":"age","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age?post=7035"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=7035"},{"taxonomy":"persona","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefyi.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona?post=7035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}