Being a stepmom is hard. Stepmoms Laura Petherbridge, Gayle Grace and Heather Hetchler offer their very best advice for becoming the best stepmom you can be.

What’s the biggest mistake couples make when trying to blend a family? Stepmoms Laura Petherbridge, Heather Hetchler and Gayla Grace, share their perspective on this question and more.

Stepmothers Laura Petherbridge, Heather Hetchler and Gayla Grace talk about the challenges they’ve faced blending a family and becoming effective stepmothers.

Bill and Evelyn Thompson join Ron Deal to talk about their surprising courtship and remarriage, as well as the adjustments blending families has required of them.

Bill and Evelyn Thompson talk about their first phone call and the launch of their budding romance.

Bill and Evelyn Thompson join us to share more about their losses, and their second chance at love

In some step families, parents try to force their kids into a relationship with their stepparent. Ron Deal suggests letting the kids set the pace for the relationship with their stepparent.

Blending a family is easy, right? Ron Deal says “not so fast”. Blending two families is a lot slower, more complicated and more fraught with challenges than anyone expects.

God can create beauty from ashes.

Today, the Spehns’ story continues as Michael tells of Cathy, the wife he lost to cancer.

Michael and Gina Spehn both suffered the loss of a spouse to cancer, but their stories turned from grief to hope.

Is your marriage in a “death spiral”? That’s how Moe and Paige Becnel describe the first four years of their blended-family marriage. Joining the Becnels is blended family expert, Ron Deal.