Because step parenting is such a sacrifice in so many ways,

you're walking into a pool of hurt, a divided family,

and you are going to get some of that spilled on you.

Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I'm Ann Wilson.

And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our Family Life app.

This is Family Life Today.

Well, today in Family Life Today, we get to listen to Ron Deal from his Family Life Blended podcast,

which comes out every two weeks.

Yeah.

And if you're not listening to it, you need to subscribe, because it's really, really good content.

And it's so practical.

Yeah, and we get to listen to a conversation Ron had with what I think a lot of blended families feel.

I know I felt it when my dad got remarried.

Where do I fit?

How do I step into this family?

I'm thinking especially to myself, if I'm a stepmom, and you have a family already established with your new husband,

and he has kids, you're wondering like, what's my place? Where do I fit?

Yeah. And so today, Ron interviewed Laurie and Jerry Short.

Laurie stepped into a family already established.

She's single with no kids, comes into this family.

And her analogy of what that felt like is very true.

Laurie, the opening line to the introduction of your book says,

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