FamilyLife Blended® Minute

The Blame Game

with Ron Deal | September 11, 2024
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Ever since Adam and Eve people have been playing it—the blame game.

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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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The Blame Game

With Ron Deal
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September 11, 2024
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Ron: Ever since Adam and Eve people have been playing it—the blame game.

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

Ron: You know how to play it, right? Something’s not right in your world so you find someone to blame. And when there is conflict in a relationship, you blame the other person for their part, completely ignoring your part. Blended families do this, too. Biological parents blame the stepparent. Stepparents might blame the children or the parent in the other home. The other home blames the ex-spouse. The mother-in-law blames the new son or daughter-in-law. Around and around it goes.

May I suggest you look in the mirror. Focusing on your part of the dance astronomically improves the odds that you can change the situation. You know, Jesus told us what to do. “First, take the log out of your own eye.” For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.

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