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Don’t Pack a Suitcase

with Ron Deal | September 25, 2024
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When you check into a hotel, it feels like home, right?

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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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    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 ...more

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Don’t Pack a Suitcase

With Ron Deal
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September 25, 2024
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Ron: When you check into a hotel, it feels like home, right?

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

Ron: Well, no actually walking into a hotel room with a suitcase to find an empty closet and empty drawers is a reminder that it’s not your home; you’re a visitor. And that’s why I encourage co-parents not to make their kids pack a suitcase before going to the other home. That’s what visitors do. Sure, they’ll carry their homework and their cell phone with them, but their closet should be filled with their stuff and their clothes when they arrive. Even the clothes they’re wearing are the child’s clothes, not yours.

Here’s the point: I know we call it visitation, but they’re not visiting. Make sure they know they belong in both homes. For FamilyLife Blended, I’m Ron Deal.

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