FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Stop Running

with Ron Deal | November 21, 2019
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Do you feel like Forrest Gump? I keep running into young people whose parents went round and round on the marriage go-round and they got left behind. Alone. Now as adults they don't know what a healthy relationship is or what good parenting looks like. So, they run. Well, in the middle of the desert Forrest finally announces, "I'm pretty tired. I think I'll go home now." Stop running. Find a ministry or a godly mentor to help you find some answers. Maybe "tired" is trying to tell you something.

  • Show Notes

  • About the Host

  • About the Guest

  • Do you feel like Forrest Gump? I keep running into young people whose parents went round and round on the marriage go-round and they got left behind. Alone. Now as adults they don't know what a healthy relationship is or what good parenting looks like. So, they run. Well, in the middle of the desert Forrest finally announces, "I'm pretty tired. I think I'll go home now." Stop running. Find a ministry or a godly mentor to help you find some answers. Maybe "tired" is trying to tell you something.

  • 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.

You know that scene in Forrest Gump when he runs back and forth across the country for three years? Hey, stop running!