Before my husband and I married, the children seemed very positive about having me in their life. After the wedding, however, things got harder and there was much more resistance on their end. From everything I have read, this was a completely normal and expected reaction.
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Building trust with your stepchildren is an important investment in your family. When you married your spouse, you also married his kids and you all must become a family. Although biological families trust each other instinctively, stepfamilies must build that trust piece by piece.
One of the the ways stepmoms and stepdads can do this is with some powerful trust-building actions that demonstrate their intention to not compete but to help. These actions will help to build to foundation for a future where you are becoming more like family, and less like strangers.
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This site is dedicated to helping people in second marriages. I am in a second marriage, and chances are, you are too, if you are reading this blog. All of us deal with one primary issue: learning to live together and adjust in a newly formed family.
The last blog post talked about how second marriages are complicated. And there are several things that make it complicated, but some of our situations are more complicated than others.
In this post, I want to take some time to talk about the different types of second marriage that people enter into.
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You know those moments in life where something just becomes completely clear? I am going to tell you a story today about when I knew, in my gut, that my future -husband would commit.
