FamilyLife Blended® Minute

The Fun-Factor 1

with Ron Deal | February 20, 2019
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Ty and Andrea secretly watched each other play tennis in a club league for months before Ty finally asked Andrea to play a match-and they were a match. Fast forward and the fun activities that brought them together have now faded into the business of life. Making time for leisure activities is key for all marriages, but my research has discovered it is particularly important for stepfamily couples. There's something about "the fun-factor" that protects you from the stress of stepfamily life.

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  • Ty and Andrea secretly watched each other play tennis in a club league for months before Ty finally asked Andrea to play a match-and they were a match. Fast forward and the fun activities that brought them together have now faded into the business of life. Making time for leisure activities is key for all marriages, but my research has discovered it is particularly important for stepfamily couples. There's something about "the fun-factor" that protects you from the stress of stepfamily life.

  • Ron Deal

    Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.

You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to guess that having fun together as a couple is good for your marriage. And you’d be right!