Blending Your Stepfamily: Love Your Abuser?
There are different reasons why each of us are in Blended Families. The reason for me is because my ex-husband was an abuser - physically, mentally and emotionally. But it…
Blending Your StepFamily: StepMoms, not StepMonsters
I want to thank you for allowing me to journey with you as you Blend Your Stepfamily and I would love to hear from you. If I have not addressed…
Blending Your StepFamily 54: Truest Truth (About You)
How can we help our kids to accept and like themselves? Come to think of it, how can we really accept and like our self? As adults, we think we…
Blending Your StepFamily: Investing In Relational Capital
As stepparents, sometimes we can perceive more clearly some areas in our stepkids lives that need to change. Perhaps you are noticing a pattern of lying, or sneakiness or the kids…
Blending Your StepFamily: The Hidden Dangers of Resentment, Part 2
We recently discussed what resentment is and how it can occur between a stepparent and their stepchild. Today, let’s talk about resentment towards your partner. Here's a few of triggers that…
Blending Your StepFamily 53: Focus on the Blessings
We all have pressures and things in our lives that we wish were different. None of us escape. Some seasons are easier than others and sometimes we may enter a…
Blending Your StepFamily: The Hidden Dangers of Resentment, Part 1
Unfortunately, it’s quite normal to experience feelings of resentment from time to time in blended families but they need not cause a breach in relationships if you address the issues…
Blending Your StepFamily: Blood Is Thicker Than Water, But LOVE Is Thicker Than Blood
They say that blood is thicker than water meaning that blood family ties are stronger than other ties. Janet loved her stepson, James, as her own. His birth mom had…
Blending Your StepFamily 52: Fixing What Needs To Be Fixed
The first home we bought was a fixer upper. Not that everything in it had to be redone but we wanted to make it our own so there was a…
Blending Your StepFamily 51: Relational Capital
In one of our blended family classes, we had a couple join us half way through the 10-class sessions. So they had not begun the classes with the rest of…