Marriage: Pushing Away
Have you ever found yourself pushing away someone who means a lot to you? What's that about?
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About the Host
About the Guest
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Have you ever found yourself pushing away someone who means a lot to you? What's that about?
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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: Have you ever found yourself pushing away someone who means a lot to you? What’s that about?
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Ron: We do this odd thing, sometimes, when we feel insecure in a relationship we push the other person away so we don’t get hurt. One dad wrote to me, “I have a fear of trusting my new wife. So I push her away and at the same time I draw my kids closer.”
Hmmm. Now that is a problem. In a blended family when one spouse draws close to their kids, to the detriment of their marriage, we have a big problem.
So, what is this guy to do? Well, he should ask God for help so he can figure out what he’s afraid of and stop pushing people away and start loving in spite of the risk with his whole heart. For FamilyLife Blended, I’m Ron Deal.
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