Who Comes First In a Blended Marriage? Ron Deal & Gayla Grace
FamilyLife Today®
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4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Who comes first in a marriage? And how to communicate it well? Hear from Dennis and Barbara Rainey, Bob Lepine, and Ron Deal and Gayla Grace as they discuss how to prioritize marriage in a blended family and how to implement family meetings towards that end.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't think a lot of biological parents are trying to put their spouse in the backseat and their kids in the front |
| 0:05.8 | That's not their heart or their intention, but it is sort of the way it works out when you lean towards the kids and making decisions. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to Family Life Today. |
| 0:21.0 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. |
| 0:29.0 | You can find us at FamilyLife Today. |
| 0:32.0 | This is Family Life Today.com. This is Family Life today. I am not sitting here with my wife Anne. She is not feeling well. |
| 0:47.0 | So I'm sitting here with Ron Deal. It doesn't quite look like Anne, but but man can this guy bring the goods |
| 0:54.3 | definitely second best when it comes to wish the end was here but it's good to be with |
| 0:58.7 | you day I wish you could be here too but Ron it's gonna be great |
| 1:01.0 | Ron directs our blended family ministry here at family life today and whenever we're |
| 1:06.8 | together you always end up asking me something. |
| 1:09.1 | I don't know I'm never really ready for it but you it's like you put me on the couch and you sort of |
| 1:14.3 | dive into my life it's so profound that you just made this day because I actually have a |
| 1:18.6 | question for you Dave I'm not gonna let you ask it I'm today okay I'll let you go hey did you ever feel like once your step |
| 1:26.6 | mom came into your life did you ever feel like your dad loved your step mom more |
| 1:30.0 | than you and your brother oh yeah yeah, no question. I mean my situation was I live with my mom |
| 1:36.0 | full-time my biological mom and would fly down to my dad in Florida and he was an |
| 1:42.1 | airline pilot so the good thing is I could fly free that was nice but you know for years it was just I would go down and it's just dad and I it was father-son time and sometimes my older brothers were there so it was the |
| 1:55.2 | boys and my dad and then when I was in middle school I fly down and he's got Biatta his wife which she was amazing step-mom to me but |
| 2:08.5 | yeah I felt like I didn't even feel like I was in second place now. I felt like I was in fifth place. |
| 2:14.0 | It was like they were in love. But from that moment on I felt like I was not the priority anymore. |
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