FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Long-Term Marital Happiness

with Ron Deal | February 15, 2024
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For the most part, long-term marriage really pays off.

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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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Long-Term Marital Happiness

With Ron Deal
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February 15, 2024
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Ron: For the most part, long-term marriage really pays off.

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

Ron: Why does our culture think that long-term marriages are destined to be unhappy and boring? First of all, where does that come from? It might be spill-over from negative rhetoric about marriage in general, but let’s be clear. It’s not true. New research of couples married a long time confirms that after about 20 years marriage improves for most couples. One of the country’s leading sociologists, Dr. Paul Amato said, “Contrary to what many people think, marital quality does not inevitably decline—it tends to remain high or even improve over the decades.”

Marital dedication—it’s good for life. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.

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