FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Earn Their Trust

with Ron Deal | February 26, 2020
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To have healthy relationships it really takes love and trust. One without the other doesn't make for a solid relationship. Now, especially for adopted children, foster children, and stepchildren trust opens the door to love. Build trust by being emotionally and physically safe to be around; by showing them that you are committed, and you'll never leave them; and by loving them on their worst day. And be trustworthy. Be a person they can trust, and you'll be a person they can love.

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  • To have healthy relationships it really takes love and trust. One without the other doesn't make for a solid relationship. Now, especially for adopted children, foster children, and stepchildren trust opens the door to love. Build trust by being emotionally and physically safe to be around; by showing them that you are committed, and you'll never leave them; and by loving them on their worst day. And be trustworthy. Be a person they can trust, and you'll be a person they can love.

  • 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.

Stepparents, don’t just aim for love, earn their trust.