This week, Janelle is tackling a topic that generated a lot of strong opinions from followers… What happens when your mother-in-law continues to maintain contact with your partner's ex?

This all starts with a listener sharing how her mother-in-law has maintained a close relationship with her son's former partner, despite being told that it makes him uncomfortable. The listener wanted to know whether this is something you can set a boundary around… and the answers weren't nearly as straightforward as you might think.

Janelle also gets into the difference between a request and a boundary, why some family situations are more complicated than a simple right-or-wrong answer, and how to navigate relationships that continue to hurt your feelings even when nobody is technically doing anything "wrong."

You'll also hear about the importance of making space for uncomfortable emotions, why validation doesn't always mean agreement, and how relationships can sometimes be maintained without becoming the center of someone's life.

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This week, Janelle is talking about some of the less obvious red flags and green flags that can show up in mother-in-law relationships.

Not the big, dramatic, easy-to-spot stuff.

The smaller things.

The comments that leave you feeling a little weird.

The patterns that are easy to brush off individually, but start to paint a picture over time.

That includes figuring out what are those behaviors that might signal a relationship is heading in an unhealthy direction, along with the qualities that tend to show up in genuinely supportive, respectful family relationships.

The episode also explores why context matters, why not every awkward interaction is a red flag, and why it's important to pay attention to patterns rather than isolated incidents.

And before anyone starts diagnosing their entire family based on a podcast episode… Janelle also talks about the danger of overanalyzing every interaction and why healthy relationships leave room for people to be imperfect.

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This week, Janelle is joined by licensed therapist, content creator, and mom of two Andrea Brambila to talk about modern parenting, family dynamics, and the pressure parents are under to do literally everything perfectly.

Andrea shares her thoughts on "90s-style parenting," why kids don't need parents acting like full-time cruise directors, and how independence, boredom, and lower screen time can actually create calmer family dynamics.

The conversation also gets into navigating difficult in-laws while raising kids, how to decide which parenting "hills" are actually worth dying on, and why flexibility matters… especially when extended family members do things differently than you would.

They also talk about creating a home that people genuinely want to be in, why connection matters more than control, and how trying to force relationships almost always backfires.

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