Blending Your StepFamily: How To Tell Your Kids You Are Splitting Up
When it comes to telling kids about the divorce, many parents freeze up. It’s not easy to tell your child you are getting divorced and that one of their parents…
Blending Your StepFamily 56: Intimacy with Christ Helps With Relationships
Relationships can be difficult. If they were easy, we wouldn’t have broken families, divorces, broken hearts, misunderstandings, lack of forgiveness and bitterness, and the list could go on. But relationships…
Blending Your StepFamily: The One Key To A Successful Blended Family
Luann was thinking of leaving…she’d had it. Her husband Frank was a control freak. He was always on her kids about something. When she tried to step in, he would…
Blending Your StepFamily: Sex is a Gift not to be Wasted
Sex is a “hot” topic, but among some couples, it’s a subject they evade. The way we view sex can determine whether we are fulfilled in it or avoiding it. …
Blending Your StepFamily: Healthy Perspectives Lead to Healthy Families
Let’s talk about perspectives today, what is perspective and how does it influence our attitudes and decisions. Is the glass half full or half empty, it boils down to your perspective.…
Blending Your StepFamily: The Love/Respect Cycle
On a scale of 1-10, with one being low and ten high, how would you rate your relationship with your spouse? Is it what you imagined when you married? Aside…
Blending Your StepFamily 55: Alienated
I recently received a comment on a podcast I did entitled Ever Feel Like Giving Up? In it I was speaking to the adults of stepfamilies and encouraging them not…
Blending Your StepFamily: Feel Like Giving Up?
Do you ever feel like just throwing in the towel? You’re tired of going around the same mountain over and over again. You feel like you may never get the…
Blending Your StepFamily: Signs of Domestic Abuse
Last time I shared part of my story about being married to my first husband and the abuse I suffered. Today, I would like to look at the signs of…
Blending Your StepFamily: My Abuse
I recently described how my ex-husband came to believe in the Lord. Incredibly, the Lord allowed me to be a part of his salvation. I say incredibly because for the…