{"id":2756,"date":"2010-08-22T14:28:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T20:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2010-08-22T14:28:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T20:28:43","slug":"today-the-gathering-%e2%80%93-why-is-it-so-hard-to-get-family-right-and-so-damaging-when-we-don%e2%80%99t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-%e2%80%93-why-is-it-so-hard-to-get-family-right-and-so-damaging-when-we-don%e2%80%99t\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering \u2013 Why is it So Hard to Get Family Right and So Damaging When We Don\u2019t?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i355.photobucket.com\/albums\/r472\/barbaramcgee\/anmm_smallicon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Today was the second week in our 10-week series, \u201cAccept No Mediocre Marriage: the Top 10 Things They Fail to Tell You Before you Say, \u2018I Do\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today we talked about <strong>the importance of the families we come from and what baggage we often bring into a marriage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Who doesn\u2019t get married with high hopes and expectations, thinking that the only thing that matters is the guy and the gal up front saying, \u201cI do?\u201d\u00a0 Well the truth of the matter is that guy and that gal, no matter how well-intentioned they are, have been wounded by their family of origin and they bring that stuff with them, there, that day.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to see that to be true because of how good they look: a beautiful dress she\u2019ll never wear again, a tuxedo he\u2019ll never fit into again.\u00a0 That\u2019s\u2019 why we take so many pictures, because we\u2019re saying somehow in our minds that this is the best we\u2019ll ever be.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about the three things that solid families provide, and what happens when they don\u2019t.\u00a0 We talked about why family is so hard and we also talked about what we owe each other.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are dealing with family issues that you brought into your marriage<\/strong>, generational problems, insecurities, and dysfunction, this talk today can help give you a lot of answers, guidance, and hopefully, freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was the second week in our 10-week series, \u201cAccept No Mediocre Marriage: the Top 10 Things They Fail to Tell You Before you Say, \u2018I Do\u2019\u201d Today we talked about the importance of the families we come from and what baggage we often bring into a marriage. Who doesn\u2019t get married with high hopes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-%e2%80%93-why-is-it-so-hard-to-get-family-right-and-so-damaging-when-we-don%e2%80%99t\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today @ The Gathering \u2013 Why is it So Hard to Get Family Right and So Damaging When We Don\u2019t?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}