FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Middle-man

with Ron Deal | March 12, 2019
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I think all parents can learn from Sophia. "There's no doubt," she said, "my brother and I were the middle-men in my parent's communication. They'd communicate through us and I'd have to filter the message to keep somebody from getting mad." I want to be fair. These parents probably thought that by communicating through their child they kept their tension at a minimum. But all they did was transfer their tension to their child. Look, keep your problems, your problems. Share love, not tension.

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  • I think all parents can learn from Sophia. "There's no doubt," she said, "my brother and I were the middle-men in my parent's communication. They'd communicate through us and I'd have to filter the message to keep somebody from getting mad." I want to be fair. These parents probably thought that by communicating through their child they kept their tension at a minimum. But all they did was transfer their tension to their child. Look, keep your problems, your problems. Share love, not tension.

  • 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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