Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families

#12: 5 Ways to Know Your Relationship is in Trouble

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I speak to people almost every day who are struggling with their family relationships.

Parents are tired of their children’s challenging behaviour. Children are stressed and struggling to live up to the perfection their parents demand. And frankly, some of the families I deal with are in real trouble…

I remember one parent of a teenager who was tremendously aggressive, and I could not do or say anything that could convince him to consider that his attitude was toxic to his relationship with his daughter.

It was all her fault.

He wasn’t doing anything wrong… but the sad truth is he barely registered just how much trouble their relationship was in.

In this podcast, we’ll review 5 ways we can know that our relationship is in trouble.


* 0:00 Intro

* 2:47 5 Ways to Know Your Relationship With Your Children is in Trouble

* 10:20 Three minute therapy: How to handle angry children

* 18:34 Are parents servants?