FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Stepfamilies and Adoption

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July 22, 2021
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Stepfamilies and Adoption
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About the Guest

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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.

About the Host

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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.

Episode Transcript

Ron: Hey Ron, are stepfamilies and adoptive families similar?

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

Ron: Yeah, in some ways they are. For example, adoptive parents and stepparents alike have to bond with kids by developing trust, learning how to read each other, and sharing life together. And they—and the children—learn that the pain of the past really can’t be avoided. You can hope that the past will not affect the bonding process in the family but both families understand that avoiding pain and pretending it doesn’t matter, doesn’t really get you anywhere, but moving through pain together does.

Considering the past and building a relationship in the present that’s how you forge a family. One loving, stubborn step at a time. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.

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