Adjustments for Blended Couples
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Every marriage goes through a lot of changes at the beginning. That is especially true for blended family couples. John, Greg, and Erin discuss changes that blended families have to walk through, and provide hope to those who struggle with being too attached to their kids. 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. |
| 0:35.7 | Well, most people when they first get married have to deal with a lot of |
| 0:38.8 | adjustments in life and that's really true for those who are joining |
| 0:43.6 | together as a blended family and children are part of the mix. I'm John |
| 0:47.8 | Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smolley. They lead our marriage team and I'll |
| 0:52.9 | just throw this out to either one of you. What are some of the common |
| 0:55.6 | adjustments unique to couples who are becoming a blended family? Yeah, I |
| 1:00.3 | think it's all about expectations. It makes me think about that Aaron and I've |
| 1:04.5 | been married 30 years and we adopted our youngest daughter from China what 12 |
| 1:12.1 | years ago. 12 years ago. And I had so many expectations. I knew exactly how |
| 1:17.0 | this was going to go in terms of your relationship with Aaron and an adopted |
| 1:20.6 | child or all of it. Honestly, really. And with our biological kids, how |
| 1:25.4 | that was going to look. I remember literally when the social worker brought |
| 1:31.5 | her up Annie to our hotel room, we were so excited. So it was our whole family. |
| 1:37.4 | So Aaron and I and then our three biological kids. And so there's a knock on |
| 1:42.1 | the door. We open the door and just, you know, the expectation that thus |
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