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As your kids grow up, it's really important to prioritize your marriage relationship.

Now, we're going to be discussing that today, and specifically for blended family couples.

How to keep the marriage a priority, even though there are multiple challenges on multiple fronts.

On John Fuller, along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron, they lead our marriage department.

And we're going to hear now some further conversation that Jim Daily and I had with Ron Deal

and Dr. Gary Chapman, who shared insights on how blended families can work together.

You know, it's amazing. Grandparenting, I didn't have the advantage of grandparents. They weren't

connected to our little family, our shrub. We didn't have a family tree. We had a shrub.

But in that context, there was a surrogate, grandparenting family that my mom connected with.

And they were just super nice, older people, the hopes. They actually led my mom to the Lord

before she died. So they did so much for our little fledgling family. But the thing about it is

grandparents by definition, they complain an incredible role of letting out pressure within the

family. You know, you go to grandma and grandpa's house and there's just a way that grandparents can

talk to you as a 12-year-old, as a 15-year-old, that makes that connection so tight.

Grandparents can be a stabilizing force through the difficult, single-parent years. They step in,

they fill a gap, they pick kids up from school, they make them breakfast, they do it. And by the way,

there's a little loss for grandparents. Now a new step parent comes in, we have this new family

and that we don't need you grandma to make breakfast anymore to drop off or pick up.

Well, that creates a little hard place in her heart, right? It's transition for everyone.

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