The Transparency of Our Blended Family Life 

Please make more videos, I’m watching them all and they are so good! You are such a level-headed couple with so much wisdom to share. I’m so thankful I’ve found this channel. ❤

This is what I look for daily. I am a step mom of 5 kids, no kids myself😳 it’s a big pill to swallow. I need encouragement & this helps so much. Thank you!!! I’m subscribed ❤️

This was a real blessing to me as I struggle to adapt to being in a blended family. It's my only marriage and I had no kids (preg with my first now). It's been hard to be a stepmother to two of my husbands four. The two with us are teenagers. There have been challenges that have affected our marriage due to his kids. But I'm encouraged to hear that the marriage should be first. Thank you.

Love this 🥰

Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this. It is so refreshing to hear. My husband and I have been married for 3 years. This is so helpful!

Love tour transparency and your hearts and what you stand for. Thankyou for sharing this!

Thank you you too my husband and I need help all in that area I believe God led me to this video so this video was 8 months ago where are you two please come back

Thank you so much!! I’m going through struggles too and this is the first time i’ve been able to get advice or hear from someone with a VERY similar situation!

You guys are an example for me.I pray the God gives you more knowledge and expande everywhere with this bible principles.

First of all, You are so pretty and thank you for making me feel I’m not alone in this situation. You both have a gift as a speaker. I like that you said your marriage come first and divorced is not an option. I should adopt that ideas. 👍

I’m loving your channel!

Thanks for sharing❤

Please make more videos!! ❤

My husband doesn’t like my father and his wife, specifically his wife. I had to some what distance myself from them because I agree, your spouse comes first, always. Your children’s marriage is more important then their parents. Now that I am a parent myself, I can 100% say it’s a bigger burden to carry as the parent that your children are no contact then it is for your child to be no contact with their parents. Maybe when your sons from your first marriage have children of their own they will understand and want to repair that relationship as the love between a parent and child is unconditional, not vice versa.

So... this is the first time I've ever commented on anything online. I'm kind of an anti social media person. lol but, I wanted to say the two of you are amazing people! Your videos have truly helped my relationship our blended family as a whole. Keep the great content coming. Thank you and God bless!

I just found this channel and absolutely love it! Not too many like this, but where did they go? Just a quick internet search and seems like they just abandoned their work like 2 years ago.

This was honestly pretty good to hear. As a kid who was in two blended families (I have both a stepdad and a stepmom) your exes sound awfully similar to my parents. I'm not sure if I'd call them straight up narcissistic but after they remarried, me and my brother kind of became seen as just annoying pieces of furniture constantly being moved around in my parents eyes. Everytime me and my brother were at each house there was constant, and I mean CONSTANT, bad mouthing of the other parent which I really REALLY hated. Not to mention, whenever I was at dad's place him and his ugly wife would always argue in their room and I would ALWAYS hear me, my brother, and my mom get brought up. The same was at mom and her Frankenstein looking husband's place too. Not to mention how both of them would even use me and my brother as sort of like tools of war for each other. Constantly saying crap like: "yOuR moThEr iS cRazY sHeS uSinG yOu sHe cArEs mOre aBouT hEr nEw mAn anD kIds" or "yOuR dAd wIlL leAvE bOtH oF yOu fOr hIs nEw kIds ANd wIfE" and yadda yadda yadda. None of them after their divorce really even cared about me and my brother's well being in those times. My step parents never really took a parental role in my life as they claimed they didn't want to overstep boundaries but yet had no issues badmouthing my bio parents. I don't really have any ill will towards them but I can say that I don't really like them at all and could care less about them but as for my parents I've basically stopped talking to them after they booted me and my brother out of both of their homes and got sent to live with my grandparents farther down in California. I won't lie, I was a tough kid, I was diagnosed with ADHD (Later ADD) and so I was very hyper when I was young and just like a lot of other kids when their parents are dating new people I was jealous and was rude here and there so I can admit those things but I don't think I'll ever have a relationship with my parents again. It's been 8 years since I have spoken to either of them. My half siblings text me and say they love and miss me but with the parents we share.... I don't know. My relationship with both of them is like a broken coffee mug. There's so much that's happened that I don't think I could even say I love you to either. The one time that I actually opened up and told them how I felt they got mad at me and when I got up and left the restaurant we were at at the time they didn't even notice I left. I feel like crap saying this but as for where I'm at right now I don't really need them or want them. I just graduated med school and I'm working as a pharmacy tech, with a girlfriend, as well as doing other hobbies which are considered nerdy and my brother is planning to go into the US Navy. So I'm doing really good right now but I don't know if me and my parents will ever be able to reconcile.

I really appreciate your candor. Thank you for your message of hope and love to your spouse. Thank you for your openness.

Amen

Great topic! I'm actually going to save this & will probably have to go back to it for reminders lol. Thank you for sharing!!!

My husband and I were separated for two years. It came down to hours before the judge signed the papers I stopped the process. I came across your video looking at a different subject.

"... this whole COVID nonsense"... already off to a great start♥️ My wife shared this with me 🙂

I stumbled upon your videos, but I appreciate your honesty. I'm middle aged but don't have much of a relationship with either of my parents. However, my situation is completely different than that of your children. To lend context, I could not visit my father's house when I was growing up because according to him his wife didn't want me there, and his mother backed her up by saying God said, "a man should leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife". I think it's wrong to use scripture in this way. I understand the husband's point in this video about his ex-wife's influence on their children. It took years for me to realize my mom's bad mouthing my dad without taking ownership for the things she was doing wrong was a detrimental to me.

Wonderful advice thank u soooo much

I love your channel ! Thank you

Where are you guys now? Any more video content coming from you? Is your email still active?

Hi there! Brenda...do you have an email or any other way of talking? I am really looking for some advice and I think you have been through what I am currently going through. Thanks so much! You guys are awesome 😎

Thank you for explaining about how you have both had your struggles in the blended family. I just have a question. I'm a stepparent with no bio kids myself. My husband doesn't stand with me when it comes to his kids instead tells me that I shouldn't let the behavior of his kids bother me. How do I deal that? What do you think I should do or say?

That's pretty fucked up what happened with your son.