Creating a Family Comes at a Cost
Air Date: 2022-08-04Every relationship commitment comes with a cost. Any marriage, for example, that creates a blended family comes with a cost of sorts to the pre-existing relationships. Couples forming blended families naturally romanticize that they can orchestrate family togetherness without any cost of time or energy to the people they love. You can do this with compassion, patience, and empathy and make it easier, or you can force it in ignorance and make it worse. Let us help you manage the blend.
Ron Deal
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Ron is a marriage and family author, conference speaker, and therapist. He is Founder and President of As For Me And My House Ministries, LLC (www.RonDeal.org) and now serves as director of FamilyLife Blended.
Ron is author of The Smart Stepfamily: Seven Steps to a Healthy Family (and DVD series), The Smart Stepmom (coauthored with Laura Petherbridge), The Smart Stepfamily Marriage (coauthored with Dr. David Olson), and The Smart Stepdad. His latest book is Dating and the Single Parent. A...
