Respecting Your Past and Each Other
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
How can blended families show each other grace, when they reveal difficult details about their pasts? Jim Daly and Ron Deal share about how couples can have healthy conversations on their past histories. Also, John and the Smalley's offer hope to people who didn't have good marriages modeled to them by their parents.
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| 0:00.0 | Alyssa suffered through 11 years of her husband's addiction, and she feared the worst. |
| 0:05.6 | After we had called focus on the family, that was really the journey where we started to see God moving and working. I know that focus on |
| 0:16.4 | the family was just an answered prayer. I'm Jim Daly. This season help us |
| 0:21.0 | give families hope and when you give today your donation will be doubled. |
| 0:26.0 | Donate at focus on the family.com slash gift. Today we're going to be talking about how blended families can find some grace as they |
| 0:40.8 | look back on their family history. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley, who head up the marriage department |
| 0:46.7 | here at the ministry and we're going to begin with a conversation focused president |
| 0:50.9 | Jim Dalyhead with Ron Deal, who's dedicated years of his life to helping |
| 0:55.8 | step families succeed. |
| 0:58.3 | In a previous episode, Ron offered some tips on how blended couples could do a wedding ceremony well and he continues |
| 1:05.0 | with some great insights today. Ron you're addressing that day forward and what |
| 1:10.3 | happens what about honoring the past you also address that in a book yes that could be that could be kind of dicey yeah but you say it's critical again it's saying to a child how do you feel about okay so imagine this mom situation how would you feel about it? Okay, so imagine this mom situation. How would you feel about us inviting your dad? Would you like him represented somehow at the wedding? |
| 1:29.0 | There's different layers and ways you could figure that out it could be that his pictures |
| 1:33.4 | represent or pictures of him and the kids from their earlier family days now |
| 1:38.4 | some people are going wait a minute stepdad's gonna feel like he's ousted |
| 1:42.2 | or if he it but the theme is |
| 1:43.6 | honoring the past exactly in order to help children see the present not as |
| 1:49.1 | competition to the past not as okay my stepdad is replaced my biological dad that will get you |
| 1:56.0 | more resistance yeah you know we're on in so many ways it we can see this as a |
| 2:00.7 | zero-sum game yes right that there's winners and losers that's wrong but you |
| 2:05.0 | got to find a way to get to win-win yes and that's what you're kind of |
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