Navigating In-Law Relationships in Interracial Marriages

The Naked Marriage with Dave & Ashley Willis

XO Marriage

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Relationships

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Welcome back to the Naked Marriage Podcast with Dave & Ashley Willis, this is a special bonus episode! Today we will chat with Eric and Chanel Penn about their journey navigating in-law relationships and interracial marriage. Eric and Chanel open up about the challenges they faced, sharing their personal experiences of love, forgiveness, and grace in building healthy family dynamics. Despite rejection and hurtful comments, they chose to embrace difficult conversations and extend love and understanding. Their story beautifully showcases the power of healing, redemption, and the transformative nature of love. -------------- For all links mentioned in the episode & more XO content, visit https://linktr.ee/nakedmarriage -------------- Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Background 07:34 Dealing with Rejection and Hurt 16:07 Taking Steps Towards Reconciliation 21:14 Continuing the Journey of Healing and Growth 25:30 Encouragement and Hope for Others Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome to the Naked Marriage Podcast. We're Dave and Ashley and we are so glad that you're here. We've got a great conversation for you today. It's kind of on two fronts. Two fronts where a lot of you've
0:14.0	have to do fronts, two fronts where a lot of you've written in and it's the front of in-law relationships,
0:18.0	that whole family dynamic thing. We have a book out called Married into the family that's all about that and you know we have a
0:24.1	big heart for that that's part of our story and then the second aspect of that is
0:27.4	something we've been focusing more on lately which is the unique dynamics of
0:31.4	interracial marriages.
0:33.3	By the year 2050, more than half of all marriages in the United States will be an interracial
0:38.0	marriage.
0:38.9	And we want to be part of that conversation.
0:41.5	And Eric and Chanel represent both of those really important subjects.
0:45.7	You know, they're going to talk to us today about both those.
0:48.4	That's right.
0:49.4	So welcome Eric and Chanel Penn to the podcast. Thank you so much for having us.
0:54.0	We're so excited.
0:55.0	We're happy to be here.
0:57.0	It's going to be fun.
0:58.0	It is going to be fun.
0:59.0	And I just want to tell listeners and people watching on YouTube how we met.
1:02.0	So, Chanel reached out over social media
1:05.0	and basically just we started a conversation
1:07.0	and you shared a video of you all sharing your testimony at your church.
1:10.0	And I told Dave later about it, I was so struck by it and I thought, man, more people need to have these open conversations because the thing about it, especially when it comes to issues of race within our own families, we all kind of clench up and we feel, you know, we don't know if we can talk about it.
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