Living in the Land of Normal
Crossing cultures helps you recognize that you take language, society, and relationships for granted. And other people, who have a different normal, have a hard time understanding you. The same thing applies in different types of families. If you live in a blended family find others who also live in a stepfamily. Talk about life with those in a first family and you might end up feeling abnormal. Find others who also live in Stepfamily-land and you might discover your family is pretty normal.
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Crossing cultures helps you recognize that you take language, society, and relationships for granted. And other people, who have a different normal, have a hard time understanding you. The same thing applies in different types of families. If you live in a blended family find others who also live in a stepfamily. Talk about life with those in a first family and you might end up feeling abnormal. Find others who also live in Stepfamily-land and you might discover your family is pretty normal.
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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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Travel to a foreign land and you’ll realize what you consider normal.
Ron: Travel to a foreign land and you’ll realize what you consider normal.
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: Yeah, crossing cultures makes you recognize all the things you take for granted. Like language, society, and relationships. Now, there’s another side to this—other people, who have a different normal, sometimes have a hard time understanding you.
The same thing applies in different types of families. If you live in a blended family you need to find others who also live in a stepfamily. You know, so you can talk shop about life with people who get it. Talk about life with those in a first family and you might end up feeling abnormal. Yeah, find others who also live in Stepfamily-land and you might discover that your family is pretty normal. For FamilyLife Blended, I’m Ron Deal.
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