Are you engaged or just beginning a blended family? Ron Deal, Director of FamilyLife Blended, discusses how couples can prepare their families to blend with intentionality and joy.

Sometimes in stepfamilies, we take things out on each other that really are about someone or something from the past. Listen to Ron Deal talk with Shelby Abbott on how to keep unresolved issues of the past from damaging relationships in the present.

Hey, sounds like family to me.

"Are you part of the main family or just sort of stuck on the side?"

Drowning in a sea of emotions? You're not the only one.

Ron, my family is living proof that dysfunction breeds dysfunction.

Maybe it's time you reached across the aisle.

Have you ever tried to talk someone into loving you?

Did we just make our kids part of a blended family?

You know what? Well-intended bad advice...is still bad advice.

We just had to stay committed to getting through those early years.

Hit debt with a snowball.

So, if both parents die who gets your kids?

A pre-nup. You want us to do a pre-nup?

A pre-nup. You want us to do a pre-nup?

Be careful. Don't turn a stepfamily problem into "Us vs. You."

Ok, folks, let's be careful with our words.

Every house, has its own blueprint.

No, the bridge was always there. She just finally crossed it.

Sometimes you have to step through the wilderness with trust and raw determination.

Patience is definitely a virtue.

Have you ever thought, "Maybe I'm being too negative"?

The two-step is not just a dance in Texas.

Ok, stepfamilies. It's time to step down...your expectations, I mean.

In some ways discipleship is simply taking off and putting on.

No, we can't have you at our church because your background and past might infect everyone else.

Stepfamily living...without God? Now that's a thorny path.

Ron, our marriage is great. It would be wonderful if it was just the two of us but it's not.

Hey, man, get a hold of yourself.

When it comes to parenting united you stand, but divided they fall.