creating joy despite divorced mom/stepmom conflict
We’re pleased to announce that our new website, Mending the Nest, just went live! Mending the Nest will be your one-stop resource center for everything dual-family. We’re still in our early stages, but eventually at Mending the Nest you’ll find: online seminars and programs professional listings of coaches, therapists, attorneys and mediators, listed… [Continue Reading]
We are thrilled to announce that after two years of work, we’ve finally completed writing “Skirts at War: Creating Peace Amidst Divorced Mom and Stepmom Conflict.” For those of you not familiar with it, it’s the book that probably should have been written before ”No One’s the Bitch.” “Skirts at War” is a comprehensive, self-help book… [Continue Reading]
“Skirts At War” is finally written, now all we need is a subtitle! We’d love you to help us by taking 1 minute out of your day to answer our one-question survey. Click here to take survey. Simply click on your favorite subtitle and then hit “Done” at the bottom of the page when you’re, well,… [Continue Reading]
Have you ever thought about how weird it is that so many people are divorced now? I remember when my kids were in elementary school and I was still married, we were surrounded by other nuclear families during drop-offs and pick-ups and school events. In junior high, not so much. In high school, neither… [Continue Reading]
One day while we were talking on the phone, we realized: one reason these relationships between households can seem so impossible is because we have the two most important relationships of our lives competing against each other: parent and child vs. husband and wife. This creates a dynamic in relationships that we like to call… [Continue Reading]
If there’s one thing I wish I could tell LeAnn Rimes Cibrian and Brandi Glanville, it would be: keep it to yourselves. Or rather, keep it between yourselves and out of the spotlight. “It” being their very public disagreement currently playing itself out on Twitter and as of today, in a gossip magazine. The tiff initially… [Continue Reading]
As you may have noticed, this blog came to a screeching halt over the last several months. When writers post after a dry spell, they often feel compelled to offer a host of reasons why that no one really cares about. You’re reading this blog for your benefit, not mine. So here’s my offering to… [Continue Reading]
Do you feel undervalued? Do you long for love and acceptance? If so, join Jenna on Wednesday, October 24th as she has the honor of speaking with best-selling author, Margaret Paul, to discuss why so many women still struggle to find love and acceptance in their stepfamilies. During the free teleseminar/webinar, you’ll have an… [Continue Reading]
Have you had enough? What if she never changes? What if she doesn’t stop trying to turn your stepchildren against you and accusing you of things you didn’t do? What if she doesn’t stop overstepping boundaries and trying to make you look like a bad mom? What if this is just how she is? I… [Continue Reading]
I’m going to take a guess here: nothing in your situation is what you expected. Is it? We’ve all heard that expectations lead to disappointment, because inevitably, things turn out differently. But we had no idea just how off our expectations could be, did we? Stepmoms thought that mom would be thankful to have a… [Continue Reading]
“Skirts At War: Creating Peace Amidst Divorce Mom and Stepmom Conflict.” This book is all about YOU. It’s about finding YOUR peace and thriving regardless of what the other woman in your situation is doing. That’s what’s so great, you don’t need her to do anything differently in order for YOU to be happy. More to… [Continue Reading]
One subject that we talk a lot about here is how difficult it can be to see the other person’s perspective. And because you can’t see it, you end up digging in your heels in a difficult situation, attributing intentions to them that may be wildly off the mark and stoking your own emotional fires…. [Continue Reading]
As most of us know, this Sunday is Mother’s Day. And then… one week later, it’s Stepmother’s Day. But rather than put up one post this weekend and then… another one next week… we’d like to take this opportunity to salute, in Sandra Bullock’s words, “All the moms that take care of the babies and… [Continue Reading]
I’ve had these three videos of Carol (my kids’ stepmom and co-author of No One’s the Bitch) and I hanging around in a tech vault somewhere and completely forgot about them!They’re Part 2 of the following topics: The most common problems between divorced moms and stepmoms What to do if “the other woman” doesn’t want… [Continue Reading]
By Kat Kernohan It’s easy to dismiss a stepmom or divorced mom we are in conflict with as simply being a ‘bitch.’ In one simple word, we can shift all of the blame and responsibility for the conflict situation on to them – because they are the one at fault, they are the bitch. The… [Continue Reading]