A Sea of Emotions
In my book The Smart Stepdad I tell Josie's story. "On our wedding day," she said, "We left the chapel and there were five of us in the car...instant family. For some strange reason I didn't see that coming. Silly me." For months, Josie had anxiety and wrestled with what she called a sea of emotions. This really is a pretty common experience. Find the right answers to blended family questions. The emotions will come and go, but learning how to swim is what will keep your head above water.
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In my book The Smart Stepdad I tell Josie's story. "On our wedding day," she said, "We left the chapel and there were five of us in the car...instant family. For some strange reason I didn't see that coming. Silly me." For months, Josie had anxiety and wrestled with what she called a sea of emotions. This really is a pretty common experience. Find the right answers to blended family questions. The emotions will come and go, but learning how to swim is what will keep your head above water.
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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.
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Drowning in a sea of emotions? You’re not the only one.
Ron: Drowning in a sea of emotions? You’re not the only one.
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: In my book The Smart Stepdad I tell Josie’s story. “On our wedding day,” she said, “We left the chapel and there were five of us in the car…instant family. For some strange reason I didn’t see that coming. Silly me.” For months, Josie had anxiety, felt overwhelmed, and wrestled with what she called a sea of emotions. You know, this really is a pretty common experience. Not for everyone, of course, but many. And it doesn’t make you “silly”; you can’t anticipate everything.
But what you can do is find the right answers to blended family questions. The emotions will come and go, but learning how to swim is what will keep your head above water. For FamilyLife Blended, I’m Ron Deal.
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