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Your Spouse Is Your New Family | The Naked Marriage Podcast | Dave & Ashley Willis

Name: Your Spouse Is Your New Family | The Naked Marriage Podcast | Dave & Ashley Willis
Uploaded: 2023-11-30T17:00:09+00:00
Duration: 8 s
Channel: Dave Willis
Description: Dave Willis explains why spouses must separate from their family of origin to build a strong marriage. When one partner stays too tied to their parents…

30 Nov 2023 · 0 min

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Dave Willis explains why spouses must separate from their family of origin to build a strong marriage. When one partner stays too tied to their parents, it creates problems: codependent relationships, confusion about marriage roles, or parents who treated their child like a spouse instead of a parent.

It's where one of them, they've left their family of origin and they're trying to cleave, but you can't fully cleave. If the other person's tied to that other origin, he's not able to leave.
Right. And that is complicated. And we've lived it. Yeah, we have. And I think there are a lot of things that can cause it. There can be a codependent relationship between a parent and a child, maybe unhealthy. It can happen for a number of reasons. It can happen just because of a misunderstanding of the way marriage is supposed to be. And maybe if that parent didn't have a really strong marriage themselves, a deep emotional connection to their spouse, they'll try to overcompensate with that by developing that spouse level emotional connection with the child.
Yep, a lot.
Which really can put both that parent and the child in a predicament because it's sabotaging both their marriages at that point. And by God's design, that's not the way it's supposed to be. God wants you to have healthy relationships with your parents for life. It's going to look very, very different once you're an adult, move out of the house, and then far more different once you get married and establish a family of your own.