31 Year Old Note to Self: T-shirt to Wear
If you could go back and give yourself some advice, before you married, what would you say?
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About the Guest
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If you could go back and give yourself some advice, before you married, what would you say?
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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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Ron: If you could go back and give yourself some advice, before you married, what would you say?
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: Well, I’d give myself a t-shirt, a modified version of “Keep Calm, Carry On.” It would say, “Keep Calm, Fear Not, Serve Anyway.” You know, learning to manage yourself in conflict is vital to any marriage. Most of us slip into fight, flight, or freeze but keeping calm better allows us to put on the mind of Christ, even in a tough situation.
Fear Not, Serve Anyway: When you’re fearful things aren’t going well, you tend to do things that make things go worse and you stop serving because you’re looking out for yourself. So, Ron, turn down the fear and serve your wife. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.
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