Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

today. When I was in high school the man who discipled me had a very pretty

little poster in his office. It was a tree and it said things take time. I

have remembered that for decades now because that's what I've observed in

life. Things take time especially in your family and today we're going to

speak directly to blended families and provide you some hope. I'm John Fuller

joined by Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron. They lead our focus marriage team

and let's go ahead and hear now from Dr. Gary Chapman and Ron Deal who wrote a

book together called Building Love Together in blended families. We've got

that available in the show notes. Let's go ahead and listen to Gary and Ron as

they speak with Jim Daley. What are some of the most common challenges you've

seen with those families? I often say at the intersection of parenting

street and marriage avenue in blended families there's a lot of t-bone

collisions and it's parenting matters and step parenting and co-parenting and

the complexities around that piece. The relationship between the step

parent and step children intersects immediately with the marriage and so

something that starts off as a parenting conversation quickly becomes an issue

...