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What Does Good Luck Have to do With Being a Stepmother?
A lot according to Wednesday Martin, Ph.D. and author of “Stepmonster”. Martin explains that stepmoms with the following circumstances typically report higher levels of happiness and satisfaction.
Holiday DO’s & DON’Ts for Happy Stepmoms:
Holidays can be tough, especially this year, it seems. Money is tight, unemployment is up and the country is in political turmoil. The kids are due to visit, and you’re torn between looking forward to it and dreading potential schedule changes and drama with their mom. The ...
5 Coping Strategies for Dealing With His Difficult Ex-Wife
Hindsight is 20/20. If there is one thing I wish I could have foreseen when I met my husband, it’s the difficulties I would encounter with his ex-wife. Before she had even met me, it seemed her mind was made up. I was the devil—at least on the days she was willing to acknowledge my existence.
A Stepmom’s Back to School Guide to Creating Structure Without Appearing Wicked!
It’s back-to-school time, just the right time to cover a theme very common in many stepfamilies. So many stepmoms struggle with a home that feels chaotic and where kids have no chores, don’t follow basic rules or have otherwise unacceptable behavior. Too often the dads have not participated in organizing and setting up rules of the home, so things are unstructured and kids are not cooperative. If a stepmom takes over the role of disciplinarian without the support of the dad, she’s headed for that “wicked” label.
Father’s Day Gift Ideas for Divorced Dads, The Kind You Don’t Need to Wrap
The conundrums of the divorced father who remarries or repartners are many, but in emotional terms they can be summarized pretty simply: guilt and fear.
Divorced dads who repartner often tell me of feeling guilty that their kids experienced a divorce (regardless of who initiated it); guilty that they repartnered and “shook up the kids’ world again” (we’ll parse that misperception later); guilty th
What Does Good Luck Have to do With Being a Stepmother?
A lot according to Wednesday Martin, Ph.D. and author of “Stepmonster”. Martin explained in the March 2011 issue of StepMom Magazine that stepmoms with the following circumstances typically report higher levels of happiness and satisfaction.
Second Marriages: 5 Ways to Strengthen Your Relationship
You hear it all the time from stepfamily experts, parenting blogs and marriage therapists: “Put your relationship first.” But how?
It’s easy to get caught up in the daily drama that plagues many stepfamilies. Talk between couples can tend to center around problems with the ex, discipline issues involving the children, money woes and legal strife. When these topics become the center of discussion f
Why Stepmoms Really Just Want To Be Liked
You’re a woman. And there is a vast body of research stretching back to the early 1970s which suggests women are more “relational” than men. That means we derive not only satisfaction and self-esteem, but also our very sense of self, from being in successful, reciprocal relationships with others.
Stepmoms: Got Stress?
Start your own support group and get by with a little help from your friends!
Stepmoms everywhere are forming support groups. If you've already formed a group, kudos to you! However, if you haven’t started yet, please consider reaching out to other stepmoms—they are everywhere!
TABOO TOPICS: Things Most Stepmoms Never Say Out Loud
The feelings that come with stepmotherhood are so taboo that sometimes we don’t even talk about them amongst ourselves. It’s time to come clean! Once you know that many of your emotional reactions are a normal part of stepfamily development and that you’re not crazy, life is much better:
Stepping into a Stepfamily – Things to Know Before Saying “I DO”
Research reveals that the stepfamily is fast approaching the status—if it hasn’t already—of being the most common family in America today.
Second Marriages: How Not To Become A Statistic
The odds seem depressing, don’t they? It’s enough to make a couple wonder if they should even bother getting remarried.