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Ron L. Deal

Dating: Are You Trying to Scare Us?

January 25, 2023
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What are you doing? Are you trying to scare us?

I get a lot of responses to my resources for stepfamilies. One fairly predictable comment from dating couples is, “Ron, are you trying to scare us out of getting married?” No, I’m not. But I am trying to prepare you for life. Let me explain this from the other side. A lot of married stepfamily couples say, “Ron, where were you 10 years ago? We could have avoided a lot of problems had we known this stuff.” If you are a single parent or dating one, I don’t want you to say that to me in 10 years.

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FamilyLife Blended® provides  biblically-based resources that help prevent re-divorce, strengthen stepfamilies, and help break the generational cycle of divorce.

About Ron L. Deal

Ron L. Deal is the Director of blended family ministries at FamilyLife®, and is the author/coauthor of the books The Smart Stepfamily, The Smart Stepdad, The Smart Stepmom, Dating and the Single Parent, and The Remarriage Checkup. Ron voices the FamilyLife Blended short feature and is one of the most widely read authors on stepfamily living in the country. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist who frequently appears in the national media, including FamilyLife Today® and Focus on the Family, and he conducts marriage and family seminars around the country. Ron and his wife, Nan, have been married since 1986 and have three boys.

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