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 Kimberling and Nell Smith.

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This month, Awesome Marriage, we're talking all about second marriage.

The ministry of awesome marriage is for all couples who want to have an awesome marriage by submitting

themselves to God.

And this certainly includes those that are in their second marriage.

So we are here for the marriage that you are in now and we want to help you make it thrive and honor God. So many times in second marriage, it can just be a little bit more

complicated and come with more baggage, but there are definitely practical things that you can do

to make a second marriage thrive. Today we're going to be talking specifically about

becoming a step parent because that is obviously kind of goes hand in hand a lot of times

with second marriage. So Dr. Kim, you know, there obviously kind of goes hand in hand a lot of times with second

marriage. So Dr. Kim, you know, there's kind of two scenarios here when it comes to becoming a

step parent. There's the step parent who was already a parent before. So you're blending two

different families with two different sets of kids or the step parent who didn't have kids

previously. And so parenting is all new to them in general. So let's talk about those two

different categories a little bit. What practical advice do you have for the new step parent that

wasn't already a parent before? Yeah, because it's a tough situation. And I think a lot of things

go into it, your expectations, keeping those realistic. But I think the overall thing that I would say

is be patient,

you know, and let that transition happen. I thought today about, I saw the first time

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