FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Insecurity Leads to Competition

with Ron Deal | January 24, 2019
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Generally speaking, in a biological family when a parent gives time and care to their child they are also caring for their spouse. But in stepfamilies when time and energy is given to someone else it can feel like a threat. A stepparent may resent the time their spouse gives to the children or kids may feel jealous of the time their parent gives to the stepparent. The issue here is insecurity. So you don't feel the need to compete remind yourself God provides us with an endless amount of love.

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  • Generally speaking, in a biological family when a parent gives time and care to their child they are also caring for their spouse. But in stepfamilies when time and energy is given to someone else it can feel like a threat. A stepparent may resent the time their spouse gives to the children or kids may feel jealous of the time their parent gives to the stepparent. The issue here is insecurity. So you don't feel the need to compete remind yourself God provides us with an endless amount of 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.

In stepfamilies sometimes family members compete.