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17 Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Stepmom

By Laura T. Coffey — 2019

When things get tough, focus on your relationship. It'll get better.

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Mom’s House, Dad’s House: Making Two Homes for Your Child

Internationally renowned therapist, family expert and mediator Isolina Ricci, Ph.D. presents this definitive and newly updated guide to divorce and making shared custody work for parents and children.

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Isolina Ricci
1997
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Blended Families | Moms with Coffee | S1 E14 | Elisha Beach | Part 2

Elisha Beach talks to Lizzy Mathis about the strong dynamic of her blended family (of 10) and how she, her husband and his ex-wife make a strong team.

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2020
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No One’s the Bitch: A Ten-Step Plan for the Mother and Stepmother Relationship

Sad, but true: the divorced mom/stepmom relationship is typically one of the most contentious relationships in our modern families.

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Jennifer Newcomb Marine, Carol Marine
2025
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The Enlightened Stepmother: Revolutionizing the Role

Becoming a stepmother is a life-altering event in any woman’s life. The issues are extraordinarily complex and women are overwhelmingly unprepared. Yet concerns usually focus on the effect remarriage has on the children.

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Perdita K. Norwood, Teri Wingender
1999
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The Co-Parenting Handbook: Raising Well-Adjusted and Resilient Kids from Little Ones to Young Adults through Divorce or Separation

A valuable resource for parents who are transitioning from being married with children to co-parenting together, this handbook will help ensure kids and co-parents thrive.

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Karen Bonnell, Kristin Little (contributor)
2017
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Blend: The Secret to Co-Parenting and Creating a Balanced Family

A wise and inspiring guide to creating a happy and healthy blended family by Mashonda Tifrere with contributions from her co-parents—Swizz Beatz and his wife, Grammy-Award winning singer and songwriter Alicia Keys.

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Mashonda Tifrere, Alicia Keys (foreword)
2025
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Ask A Family Therapist: 3 Tips for Blended Families {#AskACoupleTherapist Episode 3}

For this edition of the #AskAFamilyTherapist series, therapist Erica Turner discusses 3 tips that blended families can use to make the process of coming together go smoother.

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2015
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How to Succeed as a Step Family: A Psychologist Explains | Psychlopaedia

Psychologist James Bray on how to survive the high-stress first year of step parenting and establish a well-adjusted family that works for adults and children.

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2017
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Our BIG Family Blending Mistakes | Blended Family Problems | Vlogss

In this video we shared some of the mistakes we made as a blended family or commonly known as a step family. Being in a blended or step family is not easy and we hope this video will help you learn from our mistakes.

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2018
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Un-Settling: How to Help Your Kids by Making and Modeling an Amazing Life After Divorce

Un-Settling speaks to mothers and their children who have settled enough already―to mothers whose marriage they’d settled for no longer worked, who took a big leap and resolved to build something better for their kids.

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Maggie McReynolds
2018
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