FamilyLife Blended® Minute

What Brings Us Together

with Ron Deal | February 16, 2024
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Do children keep a marriage together?

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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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What Brings Us Together

With Ron Deal
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February 16, 2024
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Ron: Do children keep a marriage together?

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

Ron: More and more, single people assume that having a child together, brings and keeps couples together. One woman said it this way. “Better than a wedding certificate, we have an amazing daughter who will bind us together…till death do us part.” Now, this is part of a confusing cultural double-message that says, “You don’t need marriage to have a baby, but you can rely on that baby to remain coupled.” Ah, I have news for you. This has never been true.

A strong couple relationship requires dedication to each other, not a child. And strong parenting flows from a strong marriage. Be careful. Getting the cart before the horse, often topples the cart. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.

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