No One's the Bitch - Mom/Stepmom Partnership Revolution

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Imagine a medieval battlefield (perhaps you’ve seen Braveheart) where two lone warriors are fighting, wounded and bloody. At some point, they realize the futility of their struggle and know if they don’t stop, one — or more likely, both of them are going to end up dead.
Who puts down their weapon first?
And THEN what happens?
There’s [...]

Check out our latest coverage from The Huffington Post in an article called "Stepmothers, Mothers, and the 'B' Word" and the longest interview we've done yet — in Austin's own LiveMom, a great resource for local stepmoms and moms!
We'll be taping an extended interview about ex-wife/stepmother issues with Communication 360 early tomorrow morning, so [...]

Here’s a crazy image for you: picture a hay wagon, careening along a bumpy road, strewing bits and pieces of straw in its wake. On one side of the truck, you have a stepfamily — the father and stepmother tersely yelling at each other to hang on tight and make sure Little Timmy doesn’t go [...]

If you're planning on attending our free support group to create stepmom/mom partnership Tuesday at 7:30, please note, the location is incorrectly listed in the Austin Chronicle. It's at Central Market Cafe (north location, off 38th St.) and not at BookPeople, like our previous meetings.
There was something about having to slip behind an [...]

Feeling your way into potential stepmotherhood? Are you dating a divorced man with kids and things are looking promising? Here are a few ideas for setting a healthy course from the very beginning that will make you thank yourself later.
Bond over the good stuff, not the bad. Don’t make a part of your bonding experience [...]

I was recently asked to review a fascinating novel that got me to thinking about some of the powerful, unspoken issues that create tension and conflict between moms and stepmoms. It's called “The Unit” and was written by Swedish writer Ninni Holmqvist.
The set-up: when men and women reach a certain age (60 and 50) [...]

Anyone else suffering from end of the week fatigue after the holiday last weekend (here in the U.S.)? Today was a packed day, so I didn't finish my review of The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist, but it's coming first thing on Monday.
A big shout out to all the new visitors we've had lately from [...]

 
(Art by Carol Marine)
Erin over at the Erin Experiment has a great post up called I know why the stepkid screams. It's about the mind-boggling familial combinations after a divorce, asking you to consider what it's all like from the child's perspective. Here's an excerpt:
Life is tough enough when you've got a nuclear family with [...]

(Angelina Eberly* / photo by Alan P. Van Dyke)
1. While our overall divorce rate has dropped down to 49%, a staggering 75% of remarriages involving children end in divorce.
2. Moms and stepmoms are desperate to escape the feeling that a perfect stranger is constantly trying to undermine them. Who IS this person, really? Do you [...]