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Ron Deal: Well-Blended: Stepfamilies, Loss, and Healing Together

FamilyLife Today®

FamilyLife Network

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Stepfamilies can't happen without loss. Author and counselor Ron Deal talks about how to engage kids in blended families and start healing together.

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Transcript

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You were six when your parents got divorced.

0:03.0

Well, you want to go back there?

0:05.0

Yeah, I do.

0:06.0

All right.

0:07.0

And then you were 13 when your dad got remarried

0:10.0

and you entered into a blended family.

0:13.0

What were some of your first memories of that?

0:15.0

Well, I've shared it here before.

0:17.0

My first memory was I met my stepmom on a trip to Europe

0:22.0

with my dad and my stepmom.

0:25.0

He was an airline pilot.

0:27.0

It was sort of cool.

0:28.0

We could fly free around the world.

0:30.0

And so we went to Europe and Italy.

0:32.0

And I did not know it till years later.

0:35.0

It was their honeymoon.

0:47.0

Welcome to Family Life Today,

0:49.0

where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

0:52.0

I'm Ann Wilson.

0:53.0

And I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com

0:57.0

or on our Family Life app.

0:59.0

This is Family Life Today.

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