Are You Ready to Remarry? (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Ron Deal describes some of the unique challenges that couples experience through remarriage and the formation of a stepfamily. He discusses the importance of drawing a “family map,” to identify the complex web of relationships with kids, stepkids, ex-spouses and their partners, and extended family. (Part 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | In those early years, when I came to know the Lord, he and his family were so |
| 0:07.3 | against it that they actually advised him to divorce me. |
| 0:12.5 | Joyce spent many lonely years trying to trust God and love her husband well. |
| 0:17.2 | Thankfully, she found the support and encouragement she needed. |
| 0:21.0 | I think that God just really used to focus on the family and your guys' ministry to |
| 0:26.0 | grow me and prepare me and guide my heart to live out in front of my husband what it means to follow Christ. |
| 0:35.8 | In the best news of all is that Joyce Husband also became a follower of Jesus. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Jim Daley. When we work together, we can strengthen more marriages like Joyce and give |
| 0:46.2 | families hope. Please call 800 the letter A in the word family or donate at focusonthefamily.com |
| 0:53.0 | slash hope and your gift will be doubled. |
| 1:01.5 | Today on Focuson the Family, we'll explore the complicated family dynamics of |
| 1:06.0 | remarriage. If you're thinking I fell in love with a person that's really all there is |
| 1:11.0 | and because you and I are in love, the kids are going to love that we love each other. |
| 1:14.5 | Well sometimes they do and sometimes they don't or sometimes they're a little confused by it. |
| 1:19.0 | Often children experience both things. They experience happiness that mom's getting married |
| 1:25.6 | and they like the stepdad and there's something about him that they're really drawn to and at the |
| 1:29.2 | same time they feel a little weird about drawing into him when their biological dad is somewhere else |
| 1:35.0 | and they don't get to spend as much time with him as they would like to but yet I'm spending |
| 1:38.7 | more time with my stepdad and it's just sort of a confusing place for kids. |
| 1:42.7 | Some great insights from Ron Deel today and we'll continue the conversation about |
| 1:47.9 | remarriage. Your host is focus president and author Jim Deely and I'm John Follett. |
| 1:53.4 | John we had a really insightful conversation last time with Ron discussing the complex and |
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