Different Love, Still Family
Friends. Some of us have a lot of them and some of us have only a few. But do you love them all the same?
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About the Host
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
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Different Love, Still Family
Air date: February 11, 2025
Ron: Friends. Some of us have a lot of them and some of us have only a few. But do you love them all the same?
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: Well, no, of course you don’t love all your friends the same. To be honest, family members are kind of like that. You may have a lot of siblings but there is one that you are closer to than others. Or maybe you know one set of grandparents much better than the other. And then there is that weird uncle that you never see except at family reunions.
You know, it’s interesting. Sometimes I hear members of blended families admit that they feel closer to some family members than others. But they feel guilty about it. I’m not sure why. We all have family that we love to differing degrees, but they are still family. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.
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