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When Your Child Visits their Other Parent
My husband and I are of the "his, mine and ours" variety of blended families. Only, up until recently, it was a blending of his only – the mine part was all mine.
Adapting Beliefs
Blended families are not without a little work to create harmony, but sometimes some things just don't mix.
I've written about making blended families work – work like the ones we see in hollywood Demi/Ashton and Bruce or Tom/Katie and Nicole/Keith (yeah, we're on a first name basis.) I've spent many years struggling to [...]
Yours, Mine and Ours
When my husband and I started dating, I had been a single mother for the first few years of my daughter's life. As a single mother, my focus was solely my daughter and rarely were there ever compromises made, she and I did what we wanted and if we didn't want to then we didn't. [...]
Room for Rent?
Blended families are unique in the fact that kids are shared between the parents. Sometimes they are at your house and sometimes they are at my house, but most of the time is typically spent with one or the other. How do you provide a comfortable space for the child that is all their own? [...]
Making it work
Have you ever read an article or seen the news and Demi Moore/Ashton Kutcher & Bruce Willis are all smiling as one big happy family? Do you see these articles and think only in Hollywood? I do. Every.Single.Time. Funny thing is that before I was a 'blended family' I never would have [...]
Our Community
It's been said "it takes a village to raise a child" and anyone who's been around the military will attest to this very sentiment. Both men and women alike are serving this country while their significant other is doing their part to keep the home fronts running smoothly.
As a Navy wife, whose husband deploys 6 [...]
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