I told them I was lucky to be a part of their family and that I loved their dad tremendously and hoped that we would always have a happy relationship together. “I told them I knew I wasn’t perfect and that I would make mistakes and that I needed for them to tell me when I was doing things that distressed them or hurt them in any way because it was not my intention. (more…)
Relationship
Great Mom Tips: Get it on Paper Part (2)
Great Mom Tips: Get it on Paper
Another great way to get to know your stepkids is to write letters. One year, my father insisted that we all write Christmas letters to our family members that described the past year of our lives. We were asked to include our achievements and disappointments and our dreams for the coming year. Then on Christmas, when we all gathered, we read the letters out loud to one another. For the first several years that we did this, it was a torture session as we all worked through old pain. (more…)
Code Red: Relationship Deal-Breakers Part (2)
The second deal-breaker is when a stepparent tries to discipline a child too early in their relationship. In Brooke’s case, she felt that her stepmother was trying to lay down the law when she hadn’t done the work of building a strong relationship with her first. (more…)
Code Red: Relationship Deal-Breakers
There are a couple of relationship deal-breakers for kids. Though every family situation is unique, it was remarkable how many times I heard stories like this one: Brooke’s parents got divorced when she was 2 months old. Her father remarried when she was 9, and at first she didn’t have any problem with her stepmother, whom she never lived with. “It was always playtime,” she remembers of her visits to their house. (more…)
5 Reasons Why Men Do not Want to Commit
Age the relationship over the years cannot be the benchmark that you or your spouse has to commit. Most of this occurs in men. Actually what is the reason they are afraid of commitment?
As quoted from msn, there are five things that make a man not yet ready to commit. Here it is five reasons. (more…)