Blending two families, if done the right way, can be a source of great joy and strength. Improperly handled, it can bring enormous pain and misery to everyone involved. Here in this series we are covering the basics. Topics like taking your time, how to approach the issue of discipline and handling the “other” […]
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Blending Families: Straightforward Answers For a Complex Issue (Part 4)
Blending families is a time consuming and delicate process that needs to be handled correctly if you hope to be successful. Here in this series we are addressing some of the bigger issues that come up during the process of uniting two families. In this segment we are going to be talking about the […]
Blending Families: Straightforward Answers For a Complex Issue (Part 3)
In the previous two articles in this series we covered the first two topics in a list of items that we believe to be critical to the success of blended families, namely time and discipline. In this next segment we are going to be addressing the third issue on that list – relationship building, […]
Blending Families: Straightforward Answers For a Complex Issue (Part 2)
In the previous article in this series we talked about the importance of taking time and being patient while your newly blended family adjusts. In this segment we are going to address the next major issue on the list – discipline, as it seems to be the one that causes the most issues in […]
Blending Families: Straightforward Answers For a Complex Issue (Part 1)
Being a parent is a very involved and often highly pressured situation. But remarrying another parent after a divorce, and blending two pre-existing families into one cohesive unit, can feel like rocket science by comparison. However, complex and challenging as it may be, blending two families doesn’t have to be a source of […]
Late Life Remarriage – What You Need To Consider
Remarriage is a subject that comes with a lot to consider. There are a number of pros and cons, challenges and victories, and even successes and failures you could take into account. But if there’s one thing we’ve noticed over and over when discussing this subject with people, it’s that fewer and fewer senior […]
Marriage Statistics – Truth is Even Scarier Than Fiction!
In the words of Mark Twain, “Truth is scarier than fiction,” and in the case of marriage today, this quote certainly applies. It’s common knowledge that the divorce rate has been slowly rising for years, but that is only one of several surprising and rather disheartening facts about marriage in this day and age. […]
Happily Ever After And Other Myths About Marriage
In almost every Disney movie, whose plot centers around a beautiful princess falling madly in love with a prince she met only moments before, the entire movie tends to deal with the events that lead up to the wedding day. After a few magical sing-a-longs (usually accompanied by blue-birds and mice in tiny clothing) […]
Prenuptial Agreements: A Good Marital Choice, or a Bad One?
There are many highly charged discussion points that come up when two people decide to join their lives together. However, few of these topics generate such heated discussions as those two little words. You know, the ones that every ready-to-wed couple doesn’t want to hear: Prenuptial Agreement. Most couples walk down the aisle […]
Marriage versus Living Together – What Are The Facts?
With divorce rates rising at an alarming rate, and statistics for the success of second marriage so disheartening, is it any wonder than more and more couples are choosing to forgo tying the knot in favor of simply living together? After all, with the prospect of a messy and possibly expensive divorce on the […]
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