Loving Your Spouse's Kids
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
A unique challenge that couples in blended families face is trying to win the approval of your spouse's children. John, Erin and Greg share how blended family couples can be patient, as they're trying to make their marriage work. Featuring Dr. Gary Chapman and Mr. Ron Deal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:35.6 | There are so many different challenges that blended families face, but certainly |
| 0:39.7 | one of the more unique challenges that they have to deal with is winning the |
| 0:43.5 | approval of the spouse's children. That's an awkward situation. You might |
| 0:48.6 | know somebody dealing with that. If so lean in, we've got some hope. I'm John |
| 0:53.2 | Fuller joined by Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron. They lead the focus |
| 0:57.5 | marriage team here. And previously Jim Daley and I sat down with Dr. Gary |
| 1:01.7 | Chapman. He discussed how the use of love languages to understand dynamics |
| 1:08.1 | and a blended family is really important. Here's more from that conversation |
| 1:12.4 | which included Ron Deal an expert on the topic of blended families. Gary just |
| 1:17.5 | laid out this incredible thought and idea and this concept is so powerful. But |
| 1:22.5 | it's all predicated on the notion that the person you're trying to love actually |
| 1:26.8 | wants you to love them that way. I mean, think about it. Yeah. Of course |
| 1:30.6 | your wife wants you to know her love language and speak that. And when you do |
| 1:34.1 | she feels the the weight of your love and the tenderness of your love and it |
| 1:38.2 | communicates. But what if she doesn't want that? We translate that into a |
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