5 Tips for Blended Families
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In a blended family, the dynamics of learning to get along can be very tricky. However, with God's help, a relationship can work out in the long run. John, Greg and Erin share how a blended family can survive some of the storms they go through. Featuring Dr. Gary Chapman and Mr. Ron Deal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:36.0 | Here at Focus on the Family we're passionate about helping families no |
| 0:39.4 | matter what you're facing. On this episode we're continuing a conversation |
| 0:43.4 | about children in blended families and their impact on your marriage. I'm |
| 0:47.8 | John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smiley who head up our marriage team |
| 0:51.1 | here and you two have worked together with so many couples over the years. I'm |
| 0:56.1 | sure there's a blended family that has gone through kind of a pit and you |
| 0:59.7 | seeing them come out the other side stronger because of some of those difficulties. |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah we have close friends Ed Renee Bear and I asked him if we could share this |
| 1:08.1 | and they said absolutely they're a part of a blended family and one of the things |
| 1:12.8 | that I so admired about them is Renee's son was very young when she started |
| 1:19.6 | dating and ultimately married Ed and what I love is that instantly he he just |
| 1:25.4 | became this boy's father this became his son like there was never a doubt and |
| 1:30.6 | actually last night as I was asking them could could you mind if I tell the |
| 1:34.6 | story what's it about it we're talking about blended families he goes well why |
| 1:38.4 | would you talk about us? I said because you're in a blended family he goes oh |
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