Dating: Are You Trying to Scare Us?
I get a lot of responses to my resources for stepfamilies. One fairly predictable comment from dating couples is, Ron, are you trying to scare us out of getting married? No, I'm not. But I am trying to prepare you for life. Let me explain this from the other side. A lot of married stepfamily couples say, Ron, where were you 10 years ago? We could have avoided a lot of problems had we known this stuff. If you are a single parent or dating one, I don't want you to say that to me in 10 years.
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I get a lot of responses to my resources for stepfamilies. One fairly predictable comment from dating couples is, Ron, are you trying to scare us out of getting married? No, I'm not. But I am trying to prepare you for life. Let me explain this from the other side. A lot of married stepfamily couples say, Ron, where were you 10 years ago? We could have avoided a lot of problems had we known this stuff. If you are a single parent or dating one, I don't want you to say that to me in 10 years.
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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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What are you doing? Are you trying to scare us?
Ron: What are you doing? Are you trying to scare us?
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: I get a lot of responses to my books and videos for stepfamilies. One fairly predictable comment I get from dating couples is, “Gee, Ron, are you trying to scare us out of getting married?” Well, no, I’m not. But what I’m trying to do is prepare you for life.
Let me explain this from the other side. What a lot of married stepfamily couples tell me is this, “Why didn’t someone tell us this before we got married?” Here’s another one. “Ron, where were you 10 years ago? We could have avoided a lot of problems had we known this stuff.” See here’s the deal. If you are a single parent or dating one, I don’t want you to say that to me in 10 years. For FamilyLife Blended, I’m Ron Deal.
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