165: Blended Family Life (Healthy Relationship Series Pt. 6)
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Havilah Cunnington
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Havilah has a conversation with Lauren Vallotton about blended family. Lauren shares openly about the unique experience of stepping into a marriage as a step-parent. Tune in to hear the trials and success that have shaped the journey and what keys have been essential to stepping into such a unique role.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi you guys welcome to home with Havala. We are continuing our relationship series this |
| 0:16.0 | well this month. It's been a pretty incredible month and you guys know last week was awesome |
| 0:22.3 | with Rebecca with our sex and relationship coach and this week we decided that we wanted |
| 0:28.1 | to tackle a topic that doesn't get talked about that much but it's so valid in our communities |
| 0:35.1 | and that is we want to talk about blended families parenting stepkids and just trying to start |
| 0:40.4 | a marriage in a blended like community and also ways that we can help support moms and dads that |
| 0:48.0 | are jumping in and really taking on this amazing calling and this challenge really and so when |
| 0:55.8 | we talked about this of course I have friends that I would I think would be great on this topic but |
| 1:00.5 | there was no one other than Lauren Valentin that I wanted to have on this podcast about this topic |
| 1:06.8 | because not only are Lauren and I friends we have been through it together throughout the years |
| 1:13.2 | and heard each other's journey and story and I have watched Lauren who came into her family |
| 1:18.2 | and she could talk more about that with three kids it was stepkids it was really a journey for her |
| 1:25.2 | and I've watched her carry it out with such grace so much purpose and just hope and I know that that's |
| 1:34.2 | not how she always felt but she definitely communicated that to us and I've watched her just |
| 1:40.4 | just build this beautiful family she just had her first birth this last year as well and then |
| 1:47.8 | also her eldest son was married this last weekend so it's just been such a blur and such an |
| 1:53.2 | incredible year for her but I wanted to talk about Bluena and families and I wanted to give her the |
| 1:58.3 | floor and I have a few questions but again I know that she probably has a lot more of the step that |
| 2:04.0 | you want to hear about specifically if you're in that atmosphere so Lauren thanks for coming on the |
| 2:08.4 | podcast oh my goodness of course I love you the truth is that Lauren and I get to see each other |
| 2:14.4 | without our makeup on in our in our pajamas like every other week we sit together and so I'm curious |
| 2:22.1 | when you first met Jay and knew that he had a family before how was there apprehension to |
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