Coming up on marriage today with Jimmy and Karen.

Children are temporary,

and how are they going to succeed in marriage unless they see you succeeding in marriage.

And the law of marriage, the first law of marriage is for this cause a man will leave his father and mother.

That means marriage has to be first.

A person whose divorce tends to gravitate and hold on to the child with everything.

And I really had to walk through some challenges to make this shift.

That was part of the reason why my first marriage failed was because my husband wasn't a priority. The children were. 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 a higher divorce in blended families,

which isn't necessary.

In first marriages or, you know,

first relationships, there's marriage and there's children,

but in a blended family, there's children then there's marriage and there's children but in a blended family there's

children and there's marriage. Okay and the priority of the relationship can get off

to a bad start from day one the children become first. Let me talk to you about this. Marriage is the

nucleus of a family, not children. And children are a temporary assignment. They

won't be there for a long time. They really won't. And I remember when they put our

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