I'm Your Family

The Real Marriage Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Love Lessons from Ruth & Boaz (Season 2) Ruth and Boaz came from two very different families. As we enter into the holiday season, the issue of extended family can cause tension and stress. How do we deal with extended family? How can we navigate different family dynamics? When the Bible says, “Leave your father and mother”, it means you leave that family to start a new family. If you don’t do this you end up with one big dysfunctional family rather than a bunch of connected but individual families. Get 10% off your first month as a listener of the Real Marriage podcast of Faithful Counseling an online personal counseling solution. Go to getfaithful.com/realmarriage and join the over 500,000 people taking charge of their mental health with the help of an experienced professional. Get a free eBook Study Guide by Mark & Grace, Ruth: A Big Little Love Story and follow along with us this season. Just text "RealMarriage" to 31996 and we'll send it to you for free! The Real Marriage Podcast is part of a larger podcast network. Find more podcasts at xopodcasts.com . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And it's like, okay, as we add kids and life gets more complex, if all of these obligations
0:08.4	and expectations from the extended family continue, what if I don't agree?
0:12.7	What if I don't like them?
0:13.7	And what if this isn't my family?
0:16.6	Because you would always say, this is my family.
0:19.8	And this was one of the great tensions in our marriage. And I would always say, this is my family. And this was one of the great tensions in our marriage.
0:22.8	And I would always say, I'm your family. I'm your family. When the Bible says leave your mother and father,
0:28.4	it means that you were part of a family and you leave that family to go start a new family.
0:33.6	And if you don't do that, all you'll end up with is one big dysfunctional, messed up, hurting family rather than a bunch of connected but independent autonomous healthy families.
0:47.8	Howdy, Mark and Grace Triscollier. Welcome back to the Real Marriage Podcast. We are doing a little overview of the Old Testament book of Ruth.
0:55.6	Great Cinderella love story, the Old Testament. And this episode, we want to talk about
1:00.4	in-laws, outlaws, crazy family. Have you ever met anyone? We need to be careful that we don't
1:07.5	talk a lot about relatives on this episode. And my relatives are crazy. All right, so I'll tell you what. We'll just go there. We got nothing else to do. So we are
1:16.5	the O'Driskels from County Cork, Southern Ireland. And we had a bunch of castles. We were ruling,
1:26.4	reigning, which sounds pretty good to me. Then there was
1:30.2	a political governance change. We were dispossessed, lost everything. So to make ends meet,
1:37.1	my extended family, the O'Driscolls, had a family meeting and decided that we were going to become
1:42.7	pirates. I don't... Aren't you alcohol pirates? Well, yeah, we were going to become pirates. I don't...
1:44.1	Aren't you alcohol pirate?
1:45.9	Well, yeah, we're going to get there.
1:48.2	I don't know.
1:48.7	It's a weird family meeting when it's like, okay, guys, we got to figure out a new family business.
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