Stepfamilies - Crisis and Opportunity
One of the things I have learned about stepfamilies is that all of us go through a Crisis stage. The crisis can be a big crisis or a series of conflicts that keep showing up...

Adult Stepchildren Can Be Master Manipulators
Forging a relationship with rebellious minor stepchildren is difficult, but with adult stepchildren, it may border on impossible. If they are particularly set against you being their father’s wife, their antics may threaten your remarriage and future happiness...

The Step and the Ex - Remember That is Someone's Mom Or Dad You're Talking About As a stepparent, you are constantly faced with the ex-spouse. Depending on the kids' ages, this person could be in your life for quite some time...

The Urban Step Mom: Managing a New Kind of Company
It isn’t as if single successful career women go out looking for a guy with kids. It usually just so happens that if you are single and successful and female, chances are you are meeting men later in life, and later in life, most available men, are divorced with kids...