Tag: stepfamilies

There are common pain points that come with the territory of being in a blended family. Michele Cushatt suggests ways the church can be welcoming to the blended families in their communities.

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.

Robbie and Sabrina McDonald join Ron Deal and talk about the good and bad surprises they experienced as they were establishing their blended family.

Sabrina and Robbie McDonald married quickly but didn’t take into account the grief her young son was still experiencing since his father’s death. Ron Deal explains how children grieve.

It was difficult for Sabrina to keep the promise to her late husband, to remarry after his death. But today she is Sabrina McDonald. Her new husband, Robbie, joins her to tell their story.

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

Can they make this blended family work?

A father’s loyalty and support toward their wives can make a world of difference in a blended family.

Laura tells you how to avoid making some of the most wicked step parenting mistakes.

If being a mother is hard work, then being a stepmother is twice as difficult.