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Creating Closer Relationships in Stepfamilies

Ron Deal
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Strengthen bonds between kids and stepparents by going on a trip that doesn’t fit into the status quo.

FamilyLife Blended® Minute Podcast
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Step-Grandparenting

July 30, 2018
Ron Deal

Ron Deal, director of FamilyLife Blended, talks about the vital role step-grandparents provide as they help create connection in their families.

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Blended Family Adjustments

June 29, 2018
Robbie and Sabrina McDonald & Ron Deal

Robbie and Sabrina McDonald, both widowed before they met and now married to each other for three years, talk about the challenges of blending a family.

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Blended Family Adjustments
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Learning to Love in a Stepfamily

June 28, 2018
Robbie and Sabrina McDonald & Ron Deal

Ron Deal joins Robbie and Sabrina McDonald to talk about their blended family three years after saying “I Do.”

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Learning to Love in a Stepfamily
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Grafting: A Painful but Beautiful Process for Blended Families

Ron Deal
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Your blended family may have another river to cross and a few more battles to face, but don’t give up—significant rewards lie ahead.

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Do You Feel Like an Outsider With Your Stepchildren?

Ron L Deal and Laura Petherbridge
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Practical suggestions for stepmoms.

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Practical Advice for Stepdads

July 14, 2017
Ron Deal

Ron Deal answers some of your most perplexing questions about being a stepfather.

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The Role of a Stepdad

July 13, 2017
Ron Deal

Ron Deal gives insight into the stepdad’s role in the family. Hear him tell stepdads positive ways to impact their new families and how to avoid causing division.

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Are You Ready to Remarry?

July 12, 2017
Ron Deal

Ron Deal, director of FamilyLife Blended, talks to men about the realities of being a stepdad and encourages men to step out in faith, relying on God’s wisdom, if they’re ready to take the risk.

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Are You Ready to Remarry?
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Blending Hearts and Homes

March 11, 2016
Gil and Brenda Stuart

Gil and Brenda Stuart share how they experienced the pains and joys of remarriage.

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Relational Tension Increases at Christmas

December 15, 2015
Bob and Vicki Maday & Ron Deal

Blending family Christmas traditions is very challenging. Bob and Vicki Maday’s respective daughters describe the uncomfortable but inevitable tension that exists in a new blended family’s Christmas traditions.

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Blending Your Family Traditions

December 14, 2015
Bob and Vicki Maday & Ron Deal

Bob and Vicki Maday each had adult children when they got married. Bob and Vicki’s adult daughters share the complicated emotions they had to wade through when their parents married and created a new blended family.

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Second-Half Stepfamilies

Ron Deal
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Learn about helping adult stepchildren transition into a stepfamily.

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Growing Up as a Stepchild

June 2, 2015
Jenifer Thigpen & Josh Gangl and Emily Gangl & Ron Deal

Are you wondering what is going on in your stepchild’s mind? Some stepchildren are here to tell you about their blended experience. Josh and Emily Gangl and Jenifer Thigpen tell their stories.

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Stepmoms and Stepdads

June 1, 2015
Gordon Taylor & Laura Petherbridge

Feeling like stepparenting is just not your thing? Laura Petherbridge, and Gordon Taylor are here to offer hope. Laura and Gordon tell their stories and offer advice for blended families.

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Life in a Blended Family

May 15, 2015
Robbie and Sabrina McDonald & Ron Deal

Robbie and Sabrina McDonald join Ron Deal and talk about the good and bad surprises they experienced as they were establishing their blended family.

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Life in a Blended Family
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Blending a Family

May 14, 2015
Robbie and Sabrina McDonald & Ron Deal

Sabrina and Robbie McDonald married quickly but didn’t take into account the grief her young son was still experiencing since his father’s death. Ron Deal explains how children grieve.

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Blending a Family
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Considering Remarriage

May 13, 2015
Robbie and Sabrina McDonald & Ron Deal

It was difficult for Sabrina to keep the promise to her late husband, to remarry after his death. But today she is Sabrina McDonald. Her new husband, Robbie, joins her to tell their story.

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