The Concrete Child
Sometimes couples think a "concrete child" will help solidify the wet cement of their stepfamily. Not a good idea. Common sense would say have the baby after you've had time to merge your family. You don't have a baby so someone will marry you and you don't give a wedding ring so someone will fall in love with you. You fall in love, you commit to a future together and then you give a ring. Let having a baby be about having a baby, not a tool for a family merger.
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Sometimes couples think a "concrete child" will help solidify the wet cement of their stepfamily. Not a good idea. Common sense would say have the baby after you've had time to merge your family. You don't have a baby so someone will marry you and you don't give a wedding ring so someone will fall in love with you. You fall in love, you commit to a future together and then you give a ring. Let having a baby be about having a baby, not a tool for a family merger.
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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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Having a baby will solidify our blended family, right?
