some attempt to push their way into a step-parenting role that the kids weren’t ready for and another act as more in a friend capacity. while the path needs to be slow and gradual, there will be roadblocks, resistance from kids, step-parent rights and wrongs. there are rules, traditions, routines that no one wants another person to come in and change all that the kids are used to. some boundaries are specific to the ex, some for your spouse, and …

it feels as if your marriage is crumbling before your eyes and you know exactly who to blame. lara’s son, robbie, is 10 and lives with them most of the time. he said she was acting like a baby and needed to grow up and thought kristi coddled her too much. little kids have a lot of big feelings, and they rarely know what to do with them. on the contrary, others hold on to a lot of emotional baggage …

an attachment style is the attitude or pattern of behavior you tend towards when connecting with others. avoidant attachment is an attachment style a child develops when their parent or main caretaker doesn’t show care or responsiveness past providing essentials like food and shelter. they still struggle and feel anxiety or sadness, but do so alone, and deny the importance of those feelings. today, roughly 30 percent of people show avoidant attachment patterns. when a child wants support, avoidant parents …

but before you pick up the phone, take a deep breath and consider exactly what it means to be struggling in your second marriage. but when the honeymoon phase ends many couples in miserable second marriages cite intimacy and sex to be one of their biggest problems – just like couples in first marriages do. and yet the likelihood that two people who decide to marry will have identical ideas of what it means to be a husband or wife …

you want to make sure that your family will be healthy and happy and be a strong, cohesive unit. your family is different, and that means the process is going to be different. even if your children and their children were the best of friends before the two of you became one family, it doesn’t mean that you’re going to blend with no problems. talk to them about how you are now one family, which means you’re going to be …