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stepparenting burnout & recovery

😬 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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💔 When you're disheartened
Finding hope when you feel hopeless.
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🥷 Fighting to stepparent vs. stepping back
Pushing yourself to overachieve at stepparenting isn't necessarily the answer.
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😖 Emotional labor & the last straw
Sometimes enough is enough. And maybe that's a good thing.
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🗝 The key to stepparenting sanity
Sustainable stepparenting is all about finding & maintaining your balance.
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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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5 days to disengaged: a step-by-step guide to stepping back
A clickbaity but much catchier title than “How to embark on the potentially years-long process of slowly changing your entire stepparenting philosophy.”
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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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😴 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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