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Dating & Cohabitation 3

January 16, 2025
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With well over half of couples today living together before marriage there must be some really good benefits to doing so, right?

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Dating & Cohabitation 3
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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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Dating & Cohabitation 3

Air date: January 16, 2025

Ron: With well over half of couples today living together before marriage there must be some really good benefits to doing so, right?

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

Ron: Well actually, here’s what we know from research. Cohabiting couples are less likely to support one another financially. They are less sexually committed and trustworthy. They have more negative attitudes about marriage and if they later marry they’re more likely to divorce. They also have higher levels of domestic and child abuse. In fact, the most dangerous place for a child in America today is in a cohabiting home.

It sounds like God’s desire that you put a ring on it before you move in really is in your best interest and your child’s. I guess the only question is who do you trust more? Him or yourself? For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.

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