Valuing Marriage in a Culture that Doesn’t, Part 3
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
How a couple disciplines their children is important for the overall health of their marriage. It can especially be tricky when you're in a blended family. Greg, Erin and John give some tips for how you and your spouse can work through different opinions on disciplining your children. Get the DVD "Blended: The Unspoken Truth About Stepfamilies" with your gift of any amount!
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| 0:00.0 | After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale. |
| 0:03.5 | He wanted something better for him and his wife. |
| 0:06.5 | Focus on the families, helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to see things from the other's perspective |
| 0:16.5 | and to make sure that God is centered in our marriage. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Jim Daly. |
| 0:22.0 | Together we can give families hope. |
| 0:24.4 | Donate at Focus on the Family.com slash gift and your gift will be doubled. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you for downloading the Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast. You can find more |
| 0:36.3 | relationship insights at focus on the family dot com slash marriage podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | We all seem to know a couple who's trying to make the best slash marriage John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley, they run the focus on the Family Marriage |
| 0:53.8 | Department and the truth is that a lot of couples, a lot of families are in the situation. |
| 1:00.0 | Really is in our country today, third of all weddings perform form a blended family. |
| 1:07.8 | So it's very common and I think for a lot of blending couples |
| 1:13.0 | is they are preparing for marriage, |
| 1:15.5 | don't realize maybe forget that this is a relationship |
| 1:18.9 | that was born out of loss. |
| 1:20.6 | So probably a divorce, a death, some loss. |
| 1:25.0 | And so you have family members who might be still really, really hurting |
| 1:30.0 | and their hearts are still broken and they're grieving and there maybe some issues that they still haven't dealt with and that's very very different than when we got married and then had children and our children have been with us the whole time, |
| 1:43.2 | it's easy to forget that these relationships are born out of loss. |
| 1:47.5 | That's okay. That's something that they have to be aware of so they can deal with that |
| 1:52.4 | so that they can create the kind of blended family that they're long and have. |
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