Coming up on marriage today with Jimmy and Karen.

Day one dynamic of blended families.

If you haven't resolved this, the devil's constantly working you to destroy your present relationships.

He's constantly working you, dragging you back. you to destroy your present relationships.

He's constantly working you, dragging you back

into either the bitterness of your past

or glamorized memories that are just not real.

This is what he always does.

I really had to realize that my husband is not my ex-husband.

I would say you really have to extend forgiveness because if you're carrying it, it's's going to it's like carrying a wedge

between you and your partner you can't get past it. Oh, A blended family when you define blended families it's a marriage where one or

both spouses bring children with them from a previous marriage or relationship.

Sometimes it wasn't a marriage. Sometimes it was an unwanted pregnancy that resulted in a child or children or maybe multiple marriages or something like that.

But there's a different dynamic to it. 50% of all families are blended families.

But there's also higher divorce in blended families,

which isn't necessary.

It's really necessary because there are dynamics present

day one in blended families that are not present in other families and you know I mean

there's enough risk of divorce in a regular marriage but when you have a blended family

marriage we need to understand the special issues related to that.

And I've seen over the years of doing what we do, we've seen the most incredible blended family

relationships.

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