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🗝 The key to stepparenting sanity
Sustainable stepparenting is all about finding & maintaining your balance.
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🚩 Blended family red flags
4 potentially deal-breaking stepfamily probs + the green flags that indicate healthy stepcouple dynamics
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🦄 What sets you apart can actually be a good thing
What if the “otherness” of stepfamily life is a feature, not a bug?
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🌼 You matter.
And your contributions as a stepparent matter.
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😩 Back-to-school dread
The stress of back-to-school season for stepfamilies is so *beyond.*
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🚌 Stuck on the stepparenting strugglebus
When leaving feels at least as complicated as staying.
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🤦🏻‍♀️ When our partners have no clue
You shouldn't have to figure out stepparenting alone... but how are you supposed to tell your *partner* that??
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🧡 You will not feel like this forever.
Stepparenting does eventually get easier, I swear.
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⏰ Counting down till the stepkids turn 18
High conflict and excess drama ending in 3… 2… 1… 🎂
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😒 Stepparents, stepkids, & double standards
Whyyyy can't we just PARENT ALL THE KIDS THE SAME for pete's sake
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The 3 phases (& 7 stages) of blending your family
Because the more you know how messy blending looks IRL, the less freaked you’ll feel that you’re doing it wrong.
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😴 It's okay to take a break
I promise your family will not fall apart if you take a day or two off.
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