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The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
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The Morning Brew with Chris Bennett
Burrito Boundaries and Wedding Emotions
Chris shares his emotional state as he prepares to officiate his daughter's wedding, expressing fear about making clerical errors that could affect the wedding's legitimacy despite his thorough preparation.
• Parents struggling with their 18-year-old daughter dating a 51-year-old man receive advice to maintain open communication without pushing her away
• Jineane recommends parents "take a chill pill" and avoid controlling behaviors that would cause their adult daughter to become more defiant
• A listener's story about a "burrito betrayal" leads to discussion about food boundaries in relationships
• Chris's daughter Madison and fiancé Beckett share their own experience with food boundary issues and how they resolved them through communication
• The soon-to-be-newlyweds participate in a "This or That" relationship game, revealing their preferences for date nights, chores, entertainment choices, and travel styles
From the Horn Auto Center Studios Chris Bennett and the Morning Brew. Good morning, janine. Hi there, how are you holding up? Oh, I'm getting more and more emotional. Tomorrow is my daughter's wedding. I'm conducting, or officiating, the wedding.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I just hope I don't mess it up. My biggest fear, janine, is I know I'm going to cry and that's to be expected, but my biggest fear is that I'm going to make some type of clerical error and the wedding is not going to be official.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:But I've crossed all my T's and dotted all my I's.
Speaker 2:And you've been practicing. Yes, I've been practicing, I've got to tell you when this is all over with and stuff like that, you're going to sleep like for three days. I think You're going to be so exhausted emotionally.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's been a crazy month, with prison show last week and my daughter's wedding tomorrow. It has been an emotionally exhausting month. But how about we have a little fun with some relationship advice on this Thursday morning?
Speaker 2:Let's do it.
Speaker 1:All right, here's the story. Hello, I've been debating on posting this for the world to see, but I don't really know who to talk to about this situation. My teenage daughter, 18, has found herself a boyfriend who is 51. My husband and I do not support this at all, to the point where she Uh-huh, Nestor. Now, the way this has all come to be is so sporadic and bizarre and I'm very depressed and I just don't know how to accept this. It's been two months since she left. Help, please, with thoughts, advice, literally. Anything you can tell me about this would be greatly appreciated.
Speaker 2:You know, I think the parents need some help, because here's the thing she's 18, and you mentioned that the the local authorities they've already called local authorities. All they're going to do is the daughter will dig in. Usually some of these things like that is, if you ignore them, she is an adult. If you ignore them and you, you know, say, honey, we love you, we, you know, are not don't really approve of this. But you know, take, take the classy way, but don't know, call local authorities and do all this stuff that is going to ruin and because the daughter, they're very defiant when they're young and she will just dig in. She might, and that's maybe what she's doing. She needs to make her own mistakes. She's 18 years old.
Speaker 2:So I suggest the mother and the dad, maybe they go and they talk to somebody, their church leaders, or get some counseling to chill out on this. They've got to not think of, you know, running her life and running her away from them and she's going to dig in and I'm going to do what I want to do. You know, you follow me, that's what she might be doing right now. Let her, let her do this and just say you know, hey, you might be making a mistake. We love you how you doing. You want to have lunch. You know they kind of have to ignore it a little bit. Just ignore it and don't stress.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for the hardest part of being a parent, I think, is when your kids are no longer kids and they're adults and they're able to make their own decisions, and you might not always agree with them, but you just have to be there to love and support them. And you can, you could kind of tell them like, hey, I don't think this is healthy, or do you not even say that you? You?
Speaker 2:could say that. You could say oh, I'm a little worried, I hope, I hope you're okay with this. I said you know, we, we, we, just you know. But you can't act like a baby and throw tantrums and do those things. You want to keep the community lines of communication open, right, right. So I think the parents need to just chill. Let her make a mistake.
Speaker 1:She's an adult you know, and doesn't make a difference if this dude is super rich or not.
Speaker 2:Um, I, you know what that's. That doesn't matter either way, I mean, but there are. You're seeing a lot more relationships like that.
Speaker 2:I mean we have a lot of um. You know people we look up online that are I'm not going to mention any names that are you know big TV people that we watch every day in the news, that are there's 30 years difference or 25 years difference. And there's a lot of people out there like that. We don't always understand the whys or what, but she's an adult. They need to, not you know distance. They want to have a relationship with their daughter. Right, exactly, and she's just, she might be doing it more because they are pushing.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, all right. Janine says don't push her away. You just got to ignore it and still be there for your daughter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the parents need to chill.
Speaker 1:Chill. Take a chill pill, mom and dad. Yeah, all right. That was relationship advice with Janine Ford. This week we are lucky to have my daughter, madison, and my future son-in-law, beckett, joining me, so I thought it would be fun to do a special relationship advice with our first couple, madison and Beckett. How does that sound? Sounds good. All right, here we go. Here's the title. Am I overreacting or did I just get burrito betrayed? Dun, dun, dun. All right, here's the deal.
Speaker 1:So I, 28-year-old female, live with my boyfriend, 30-year-old male, and we usually eat dinner together. A few nights ago, I was really looking forward to this massive burrito I had left in the fridge like I had been thinking about it all day at work. When I got home it was gone. He ate it. No text, no heads up, just oh, sorry, I was hungry. I said that was my burrito and he said we always share food like it was no big deal. Now I'm not saying it's grounds for a breakup, but I am saying I slept with an attitude that night. He thinks I'm being dramatic. I think this was a betrayal of trust and lunch boundaries. So is it ever okay to eat your partner's food without asking? Or am I turning this into a burrito battle that doesn't need to be won? What say you two?
Speaker 4:I mean there's definitely been times that Beckett has eaten my leftovers before and I mean I understand it is disheartening, especially when it's food that you've been dreaming about, but I think ultimately it's nothing a conversation couldn't fix. I think I got pretty upset about it once and we talked about and I was like you at least need to ask, and he's always asked since.
Speaker 1:Oh, Beckett, you've made this mistake.
Speaker 3:Yes, I have what, and thankfully Madison was able to, you know, assert her burrito boundaries and I learned just to send a simple text beforehand and just ask nicely.
Speaker 1:What was the dish that you ate? I don't remember, oh.
Speaker 3:I'm pretty sure it was like leftovers. I think it was maybe that chicken katsu curry you made the one night. It was really good.
Speaker 1:Beck, don't pour more salt in the wounds. I couldn't help myself, but he learned his lesson lesson. You guys had a good conversation and you set burrito boundaries yes that's wonderful. That was relationship advice with my daughter, madison, and Beckett, who are getting married this Friday. It is now time for this or that Relationship Edition with the future newlyweds getting married this Friday. Madison and Beckett, are you two ready? Yes, this or that, a romantic date night in or a spontaneous road trip with snacks?
Speaker 3:Ooh, I'm a sucker for a romantic date night in personally.
Speaker 4:Well, I think that's probably what we'd be more likely to do.
Speaker 1:But you want to be opposed to a spontaneous road trip with snacks? No, absolutely, absolutely Okay Doing chores together or assigning them and never speaking of it again Doing them together.
Speaker 4:Doing them together.
Speaker 1:Streaming one show together or watching separately to avoid arguments Depends on the show.
Speaker 4:We do both. There are shows that we watch together, but I watch a lot more TV than Beckett does, so there's lots of shows that I watch on my own.
Speaker 3:And Madison has been having to endure so much basketball lately. The idea of not having any option to herself would, I think that might end the marriage.
Speaker 1:All right and last question this or that? Google maps with calm navigation or yelling? You missed the turn. Google maps with calm navigation. Absolutely, that was this or that Relationship Edition with the future newlyweds Madison and Beckett. I love you guys, love you.
