Dating: Rose-colored Glasses
Everyone knows love is blind, especially when we're falling in love. Over dinner I witnessed a mature blended family couple share their thoughts about the rose-colored glasses with a younger dating couple. Don't rush into marriage, they said. And make sure you're ready to marry the entire package that comes along with the person you've fallen in love with or don't marry at all. The entire package for stepcouples includes children and ex-spouses and everything that comes with a stepfamily.
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Everyone knows love is blind, especially when we're falling in love. Over dinner I witnessed a mature blended family couple share their thoughts about the rose-colored glasses with a younger dating couple. Don't rush into marriage, they said. And make sure you're ready to marry the entire package that comes along with the person you've fallen in love with or don't marry at all. The entire package for stepcouples includes children and ex-spouses and everything that comes with a stepfamily.
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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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When it comes to dating, rose-colored glasses make red-flags look pink.
Ron: When it comes to dating, rose-colored glasses make red-flags look pink.
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: Everyone knows that love is blind, especially when we’re falling in love. Over dinner one night I witnessed a mature blended family couple sharing their thoughts about the rose-colored glasses with a younger dating couple. “Don’t rush into marriage,” they said. “And make sure you’re ready to marry the entire package that comes along with the person you’ve fallen in love with or don’t marry at all.”
Now that entire package for stepcouples includes children and ex-spouses and everything that comes with a stepfamily. And, to their credit, the younger couple delayed their wedding and took off their rose-colored glasses. They’re so glad they did. For FamilyLife Blended, I’m Ron Deal.
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