September 25, 2023

Marriage is never easy. When you are starting a new marriage, of which each of you have children from a previous relationship, it makes compromising crucial and difficult. Their kids, my kids, our kids. You want to make it work. You have to make it work, and that means you need to learn to compromise. How do

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September 21, 2023

Most of us know what ‘splitting’ is. And yet, when a family is in the midst of a split dynamic, they often don’t categorize it as such.  A split family dynamic is most typically when the siblings are split between the parents. They have different parenting schedules with each parent, one sees a parent more or

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September 18, 2023

Don’t you wish blended families worked as seamlessly as they seem to work on TV? The new spouse and their kids all move in and everyone just seems to know what to do. Well, life isn’t a TV program. In real life, for things to work, you have to lay down the law. Then you

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September 14, 2023

The unfortunate reality of parent-child cutoffs and custodial interference is that many parents end up completely at a loss to where their child is. Both minor, and adult, children may be so cutoff from a parent that they move far away, or just simply live in a place that the parent has no knowledge of.

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September 11, 2023

So your new spouse has kids. This means their co-parent is now part of your life. This doesn’t have to be a bad thing. You could even be friendly towards your step child’s other parent. You want to have a good relationship with your step child’s parent.  This way, your relationship with your spouse and

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