FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Being Okay Asking for Help

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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: If you were lost, would you ask for directions?

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

Ron: Some time ago a woman wrote to me. She and her husband had been looking for help with their blended family. A counselor pointed them to this ministry and our resources and it made all the difference. “It was like a life-line,” she said. But she wasn’t satisfied with that. She went on to say, “We need to be okay asking for help from the church, so pastors would learn about our need. We don’t have it all together,” she said, “And I’m not willing to risk the plans that God has for our family on my pride.”

Good point. No, there’s no shame in asking for directions. And if they only knew, your pastors would want to help. I’m sure of it. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.

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