Not an Excuse
Some cohabiting blended family couples in a ministry leader's small group used my words as justification for living together. "Ron says dating single parents should invest time on the front end to help their kids adjust to the blended family." These couples would say, living together is a good way to do that. No, it's not. Cohabitation undoes more than it builds up, but even if it didn't, it wouldn't justify the sin of premarital sex. The ends don't justify the means. Trust God and model purity.
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Some cohabiting blended family couples in a ministry leader's small group used my words as justification for living together. "Ron says dating single parents should invest time on the front end to help their kids adjust to the blended family." These couples would say, living together is a good way to do that. No, it's not. Cohabitation undoes more than it builds up, but even if it didn't, it wouldn't justify the sin of premarital sex. The ends don't justify the means. Trust God and model purity.
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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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Don’t you hate it when someone uses your words to excuse their behavior?
