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Hello and welcome to Blended Family Momentum (Free) This community is the best place for you, if you want to: āœ…Learn how to be unified with your spouse āœ…Follow our simple steps then do the work to make your marriage the best it has ever been. Comment "Start" then click on this link: Welcome to the Blended Family Momentum Community - Onboarding Ā· Blended Family Momentum
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Blended Family Momentum – Community Rules
This community exists to help you protect your marriage, grow in self-awareness, and build real unity in your blended family. These rules aren’t about control — they’re about creating a space that actually works. Please read them carefully. They matter. 1. This Is a Clarity & Growth Community This is a place for reflection, responsibility, and forward movement. You are welcome to: - Share situations for clarity and growth - Ask thoughtful questions - Take ownership of your mindset and behavior You may not: - Name, blame, or attack your spouse, ex, children, or stepchildren - Post from a place of victimhood without personal responsibility - Use the community to validate unhealthy patterns Growth requires ownership. We will always redirect toward that. 2. No Venting or Bashing Venting may feel relieving, but it keeps people stuck — and it pulls others into the same cycle. This community is not a place to: - Bash your spouse or ex - Gather people to ā€œside with youā€ - Repeatedly rehash the same grievances If you’re feeling overwhelmed, pause and ask: ā€œWhat do I need clarity on? ā€œWhat’s my part in this?ā€ That’s where growth begins. 3. Talking About Exes (Read This Carefully) Constant focus on exes often keeps us locked in blame — and blame kills momentum. Instead of focusing on what your ex did or didn’t do: - Focus on what you can control - Ask how you can respond differently - Shift the conversation toward boundaries, clarity, and growth If a situation involves an ex, keep references brief, factual, and neutral — no character attacks. 4. Marriage Comes First This is a marriage-first community. That means: - We do not undermine spouses - We do not pit partners against each other - We do not validate behavior that damages unity Posts or comments that encourage division in a marriage will be removed. Protecting the marriage protects the family. 5. Advice Must Be Positive & Experiential Advice should never be harsh, prescriptive, or shaming.
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Blended Family Momentum – Community Rules
Blended families don’t fall apart because of conflict.
They fall apart because no one is willing to lead. Most couples think the goal is peace. It's not. The goal is order. Peace is a byproduct of order, not the other way around. In blended families, ā€œkeeping the peaceā€ usually means: - Not correcting a child when you should - Letting resentment stack up quickly and quietly - Avoiding hard conversations because they're uncomfortable That’s not peace. That’s deferred damage. Leadership in a blended family looks like this: - Choosing clarity over comfort - Making decisions that protect the marriage first - Saying what needs to be said before bitterness takes root Scripture is clear on this, whether people like it or not: ā€œFor God is not a God of confusion, but of peace.ā€ — 1 Corinthians 14:33 (NASB) Notice the order: not confusion → peace, not ā€œavoid tension → hope for peace.ā€ If your home feels tense, chaotic, or emotionally exhausting, don’t ask: "What did we do wrong?ā€ Ask: ā€œWhere did we stop leading?ā€ Blended families don’t need softer boundaries. They need stronger ones, applied with love and consistency. That’s how trust is rebuilt. That’s how safety is restored. That’s how peace actually shows up. If this hit close to home, you’re not broken. You’re just being invited to lead again.
Sunday Reminder for Blended Families
Blended family peace doesn’t come from trying harder to keep everyone happy. That’s the myth that exhausts marriage. Peace comes from order. A marriage-centered home is not unloving. It's stable and grounded. Stability is what children actually nee, even when they resist it. When the couple bond is weak, kids feel it, and expose it. When the couple bond is strong, kids lean into it, even if they complain first. Scripture never tells husbands and wives to build the home around the children. It tells them to become one and lead together. That doesn’t mean ignoring kids. It means refusing to let emotions run the house. If your home feels tense, chaotic, or divided, ask this honest question: ā€œIs our marriage leading… or reacting?ā€ Sunday is a good day to realign the order. Strong marriage first. Happy Souse, Happy House. Clear leadership second. Peace follows. That’s not harsh. That’s faith.
Saturday Check-In (Read This Slowly)
Most men don’t need more information. They need alignment. You already know what you should be doing: - Get up when you said you would - Lead instead of avoiding - Speak clearly instead of staying quiet - Protect the marriage instead of ā€œkeeping the peaceā€ - The real problem isn’t knowledge. It’s drift. Drift happens when: - You let your emotions run the day - You let your kids outrank your covenant - You wait to ā€œfeel readyā€ before acting Saturday is a gift. Not to sleep in… but to reset the order. Ask yourself this morning: - Where have I been passive this week? - Where did I choose comfort over leadership? - What’s one conversation I’ve been avoiding? Then do the man’s work: Pick one thing and handle it today. Not perfectly. Not dramatically. Just faithfully. ā€œBe on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.ā€ā€” 1 Corinthians 16:13 Strong men don’t drift. They course-correct. And with the right cup Coffee helps. Stepping up does the rest.
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