FamilyLife Blended® Minute

In the movies—and life—scary music means it's time to run! Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

I'm sorry, what's your point? Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Please, don't misunderstand me. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Dating in mid-life is complicated. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Have you ever had someone treat your child unfairly? Did the hair on the back of your neck stand up like it did on mine? Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Sometimes, we parents have to give up what we really, really want in order to give our children what they really, really need. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Ever since Adam and Eve people have been playing it—the blame game. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

If at first you don't succeed try, try again. Does that apply to marriage, too? Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

What do you do with good news? Share it! Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

You know lukewarm doesn't taste so good. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Hey Ron, when do I introduce my dating partner to my kids? Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Ron, because my children are adults, I thought me dating wouldn't be a problem. Boy was I wrong. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Dating for two is difficult. Dating in a crowd is downright complicated. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Compassionately correcting a friend is an act of love. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

When things are tough, default back into the arms of God. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Parting words, for all of us. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

One day we have to give them back. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

One day we have to give them back. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources.   Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast .  Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

So you may be asking me, what one piece of advice would you give blended families? Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Yeah, Ron, I'm an only child who has seven brothers and sisters. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Half of all marriages end in divorce, right? Well, I've got good news. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

I promise I'm not a peeping Ron! Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

I just don't feel like his partner, that's what Barbara told me. David controlled all the money. She didn't even know how much they had. Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

So this guy runs up to me at one of my stepfamily conferences and asks, "What do I do about the ‘D and R' tattooed on my forehead?" Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy

Somebody once said, "Divorce is the gift that keeps on taking." So why would you want to do it twice? Show Notes and Resources Find out more at familylife.com/blended Check out our blended family resources. Listen to the full-length FamilyLife Blended podcast . Contact us, email blended@familylife.com See cru.org/us/en/about/privacy FamilyLife’s Privacy Policy