The Mentor Mom: Toxic Relationships: The In-Laws

The Mentor Mom: Toxic Relationships: The In-Laws: "Toxic Relationships: The In-Laws

InlawsYesterday, we started a conversation about toxic relationships. You may be asking why I am discussing this as it is unrelated to parenting. Oh, so not true. Toxic relationships with family members do affect parenting as well as our marriage which ultimately affects our children.

Consider this, the young girl who grows up witnessing domestic violence between her mother and father who then ends up in an abusive relationship as an adult. Or the child who grows up in a home with an alcoholic parent who enters into a marriage with an alcoholic as well. Or perhaps, the child who witnesses verbal abuse between his parents and then ends up in a relationship where he/she is verbally abused. "

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posted by Robert Heard at 10:35 AM