Blended Families Interview with Ron Deal Part 2 - The Stepfamily | Ep. 12
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2016
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Awesome Marriage Podcast we welcome back Director of FamilyLife Blended, Ron Deal. Ron joins Dr. Kim as they about stepfamilies and how stepfamilies done well can be incredibly redemptive.
Ron is a family and marriage author, speaker, and therapist. He is the leading expert and advocate for blending families well and ministering to blended families. Ron is married to his wife Nan and a is a proud father.
Tune in below to learn more about stepfamilies and how to navigate the unique challenges that come with blending families when it comes to both marriage and parenting.
RESOURCES
You can purchase Ron's latest book, The Smart Stepfamily Marriage: Keys to Success in the Blended Family.
For other great info check out FamilyLife.com You can also follow Ron on Twitter!
Ron shared about the Blended Families summit coming up in Colorado Springs, you can register here.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:10.4 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson, and the admin for Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:15.3 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kim Kimberling and Nill Smith. |
| 0:19.7 | Dr. Kim Kim Kim, is the founder of I Want an Awesome Marriage and author of Seven |
| 0:24.9 | Secrets to an Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:27.4 | Mill Smith is the innovation pastor at Community Bible Church in San Antonio, as well as the |
| 0:33.0 | innovation director at Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:35.6 | To engage with the Awesome Marriage podcast, use the hashtag Awesome |
| 0:39.6 | Marriage. Welcome to the Awesome Marriage podcast today. We're so glad to welcome back Ron Dale. |
| 0:46.3 | Ron, thanks for joining us again today. Glad to be here. You know, if something happened this week |
| 0:51.0 | in my experience in the counseling room. I wanted to kind of get your |
| 0:54.3 | input on. I have a couple that doing pre-marriage counseling for them. He has been married before. He has a |
| 0:59.1 | child that's five years old. The lady has not been married. And so one of her real concerns is |
| 1:05.2 | that he experienced all these firsts that she wanted to have with the person she married with somebody else. |
| 1:12.0 | What would you say to someone like that? Yeah. Well, what I would say to her is, what's your fear? |
| 1:17.2 | Let's talk about that. In our last podcast, we talked about how fear is a seed that cascades a lot of |
| 1:23.7 | negativity down on many aspects of a relationship. And I guarantee you that there's a fear behind this. |
| 1:30.3 | So for example, for her it might be that his heart will always hold a special place for his first wife. |
| 1:36.3 | That I'll never be the mother of his child, and so I can't ever be first in that way. |
| 1:42.3 | That there's certain things that he's experienced. If we have a child |
| 1:44.9 | together, well, he's already been through that whole birth process. It'll be brand new for me. The |
| 1:49.5 | whole pregnancy thing will be new, but it'll be second for him. And so maybe it won't be as |
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