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Different Love, Still Family

February 16, 2018

Friends. Some of us have a lot of them and some of us have only a few. But do you love them all the same?

 

Well, no, of course you don’t love all your friends the same. To be honest, family members are kind of like that. You may have a lot of siblings but there is one that you are closer to than others. Or maybe you know one set of grandparents much better than the other. Sometimes I hear members of blended families admit they feel closer to some family members than others. But they feel guilty about it. I’m not sure why. We all have family that we love to differing degrees but they are still family.

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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 StepfamilyThe 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 countryRon and his wife, Nan, have been married since 1986 and have three boys.

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