Welcome to the Awesome Marriage Podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and how to have the relationship that God has designed for you.

I am your co-host, Christina Dodson.

On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kim, Kimberling and Nill Smith.

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This is a mini-series on three tips to thriving as a stepparent.

Being a step parent comes with its whole new set of unique challenges that can often put

a strain on your marriage.

So this week we wanted to just address that and give all step parents some advice on how

to step parent well and get their marriage good

in the process. So in this series, we're going to be sharing three tips to thriving as a step

parent. We'll be going over one tip each day. And today's tip is the marriage must come first.

So Dr. Kim, I feel like this is the first tip and probably the hardest tip and the most complicated really to live

out our culture really tends to elevate children and their needs in general and then when you

throw in the whole like it's a step-parent situation so either you know a divorce or a parent dying

has happened that just kind of complicates things on a whole another level and although you know the needs of

the children are certainly important dr cam why do you think the marriage still has to come first

even for the new step-parent and i think it is hard and every situation is so different so unique

why you know what's happened why there's people are getting married in the first place was a divorce was a death

what are the kids gone through all those kind of things so this is not an easy topic at all for people

it's something everybody has but i think you go back to the thing that god's principles don't change

and i think we we see that sometimes easier in other parts of life or other things that we do but i don't

think they change here either. And you want

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