FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Patiently Move Toward Your Kids

with Ron Deal | February 4, 2019
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A larger percentage of older couples are taking another run at love and realizing that stepfamily living across the generations is not easy. A newly married man, 84 years old, widowed nine years, approached me at a seminar. He was worried about his adult daughters. "They didn't come to the wedding," he said, "and they won't accept my marriage. What do I do?" Patiently move toward them by yourself initially. They are invested in you, not the new marriage. Your wife will have to be patient, too.

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  • A larger percentage of older couples are taking another run at love and realizing that stepfamily living across the generations is not easy. A newly married man, 84 years old, widowed nine years, approached me at a seminar. He was worried about his adult daughters. "They didn't come to the wedding," he said, "and they won't accept my marriage. What do I do?" Patiently move toward them by yourself initially. They are invested in you, not the new marriage. Your wife will have to be patient, too.

  • 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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