Misplaced Frustration
We’ve all done it: We’ve all unjustly taken our anger against one person out on another. The question is, what do we do about it?
We’ve all done it: We’ve all unjustly taken our anger against one person out on another. The question is, what do we do about it?
Despite doing all the right things in seemingly right circumstances, Rob and Rhonda Bugh struggled to make their remarriage work.
The simple events of everyday life can create hurt feelings and anger that send blended families down the road to isolation.
Gil and Brenda Stuart share how they experienced the pains and joys of remarriage.
A list of 34 questions about finances to ask before the wedding.
The terms used to define and describe the blended family experience vary from person to person.
Blending family Christmas traditions is very challenging. Bob and Vicki Maday’s respective daughters describe the uncomfortable but inevitable tension that exists in a new blended family’s Christmas traditions.
Bob and Vicki Maday each had adult children when they got married. Bob and Vicki’s adult daughters share the complicated emotions they had to wade through when their parents married and created a new blended family.
When you combine the practical challenges of money management with the complications of stepfamily living, money issues become volatile.
Learn about helping adult stepchildren transition into a stepfamily.
Christian stepfamily adults are often caught in a holding pattern around God and His church, unable to touch down in His love.
While attempting to combine a new stepfamily, John and Diane were once again trying to accept the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Only their church wouldn’t accept them.
If churches are going to remain strong, they must intentionally work to build smart stepfamilies.
FamilyLife Blended™ is passionate about helping stepfamilies succeed.
The core method of stepfamily ministry is starting a class or small group of couples who come together to study and support one another.
I’m convinced that God uses the stepfamily experience to teach His children about choosing love.
When is it time for stepfamilies and stepparents to graduate to the next stage of life? When is it time for them to stop viewing their relationships as new?
Everyone agreed that stepparents should be acknowledged, but doing so was often awkward for the entire family.