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stepparenting burnout & recovery

😞 The loneliness of stepparenting
Why do we feel so isolated in a role where we need so much extra love & support?
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Blended Family Frappé
🙃 On (not) loving your stepkids
Which btw is normal and doesn’t make you a bad stepparent.
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Blended Family Frappé
✌🏼 Disengaging from your stepkid is not a failure
Stepping back as a stepparent is sometimes the best way to move forward.
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Blended Family Frappé
🔥 Stepparenting while the world is on fire
Is holding your center even possible at times like this?
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Blended Family Frappé
😬 What if your stepkid hates you?
Some common reasons why stepkids reject stepparents.
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Blended Family Frappé
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🕯️ Finding light when stepparenting feels like a very long, very dark tunnel
… and the only way out is through. 🖤
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Blended Family Frappé
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💔 When you're disheartened
Finding hope when you feel hopeless.
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Blended Family Frappé
🥷 Fighting to stepparent vs. stepping back
Pushing yourself to overachieve at stepparenting isn't necessarily the answer.
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Blended Family Frappé
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😖 Emotional labor & the last straw
Sometimes enough is enough. And maybe that's a good thing.
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Blended Family Frappé
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🗝 The key to stepparenting sanity
Sustainable stepparenting is all about finding & maintaining your balance.
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Blended Family Frappé
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😩 Back-to-school dread
The stress of back-to-school season for stepfamilies is so *beyond.*
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Blended Family Frappé
🚌 Stuck on the stepparenting strugglebus
When leaving feels at least as complicated as staying.
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Blended Family Frappé
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