FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Becoming the Spouse You Need to Be

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July 22, 2021
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About the Guest

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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.

About the Host

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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.

Episode Transcript

Ron: Are you becoming the spouse you need to be?

Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.

Ron: Gail wrote to our ministry expressing appreciation for our training. And then she said something that caught my attention. “Clearly,” she said, “Divorce is not part of God’s design for marriage, but when you have divorced and are remarried, that’s all the more reason to make sure you now become the spouse you need to be.”

You see, Gail doesn’t want to repeat the past. And so, what she is doing is moving herself towards being the spouse she needs to be. Not what others are called to be, but specifically who and what she needs to be in her marriage, for her husband, in this blended family. Blooming where we’re planted. I think Gail is onto something. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.

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