On “You, Your Husband, and His Mother”: Understanding Mother-in-Law Dynamics for Healthier Family Connections with Dr. Tracy Dalgleish

On “You, Your Husband, and His Mother”: Understanding Mother-in-Law Dynamics for Healthier Family Connections with Dr. Tracy Dalgleish

From Reimagining Love with Dr. Alexandra Solomon by Dr. Alexandra Solomon

February 24, 2026 · 54 min · Episode 208

About this episode

Dr. Alexandra Solomon and Dr. Tracy Dalgleish discuss the complexities of mother-in-law dynamics and provide strategies for healthier family connections.

Today, Dr. Alexandra and fellow psychologist, author, and podcast host Dr. Tracy Dalgleish are digging into a dynamic that is notoriously difficult to navigate - if, of course, all the stereotypes and jokes and rhetoric are to be totally believed. Except in this conversation, they’re handling it with the compassion and nuance and understanding that all relationships deserve. They are dissecting the dynamic between a woman, her husband and her mother-in-law, and the complexities often found in that triangle. Dr. Tracy’s book You, Your Husband, and His Mother explores this dynamic in such an insightful way and her offerings guide this conversation. She provides tools to help you understand the dynamics at play and to shift those dynamics in the most effective way we can: namely, by seeing our own patterns in relation to others’, meeting those patterns with compassion and understanding, and changing up our own dance moves. In this episode, you will learn: Why this dynamic can be so challenging, as well as the ways each vertex of the triangle might show up to shape the dynamic Strategies for prioritizing your relationship amidst family pressures Dr. Tracy’s Six Types of…

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