Fire up your recorders! The show we taped last week in L.A. will be on Tuesday, December 1st. We're on the first half of the show (including David, Carol's husband and my ex - poor guy) and then there's another mom/stepmom/dad combo on during the second half of the show.
I had big plans to write a summary of what the whole experience was like, but I swear, we must have used up a year's worth of adrenalin last week and I just couldn't muster the wherewithal to put my thoughts to paper. Let's just say it was pretty surreal. We were terrified, but everyone was incredibly, unbelievably nice, which helped.
And Dr. Phil was tall. :-)
And my heart went out to the other trio on the show, for different reasons. I could identify with each one of them and they seemed to be having a tough time, even though the two parents divorced nine years ago. I won't spoil the story and tell you what happened between them - you'll just have to see for yourself and come to your own conclusions!
By the time the show was over, I think the three of us had to suppress gargantuan yelps of joy that we had made it through alive. But no... we were now seasoned professionals, so we simply smiled and nodded to everyone as we did the royal wave down the long halls, returned to our bulb-lit dressing rooms, and performed a reverse-Cinderella (washing our faces THREE times and returning to Slackerville, clothes-wise).
This week, I'm in San Francisco to help out with a family situation and won't have access to a computer during the day, so I won't be posting much until next week.
But I just wanted to say I really appreciated everyone's help who sent in questions (which I passed along to the producers) and helped publicize our search for additional guests. Thanks people's! Y'all are the best!
I hope this show plays a small part in getting a bigger discussion going about theses challenging bi-nuclear family issues. Lots of folks are suffering in isolation, thinking they're handling these situations poorly, when in fact, they're right there with the rest of us, stumbling around.
More soon!
Carol Marine is a stepmom to two teenage daughters and mother to a young son. She 
Jennifer Newcomb Marine is the mom of two teenage daughters and the honorary "aunt" to one adorable little boy. She's a freelance writer and editor. 
Congratulations! And thanks for the update. We can't wait to watch!
Posted by: StepMom Magazine | November 12, 2009 at 09:33 AM
I so can't wait to see this!!
Hooray for you and Carol =)
Posted by: Peggy | November 12, 2009 at 08:21 PM
I cannot wait to see this! Awesome job to everyone that particpated, and decided to work towards a common goal!
Posted by: Kristi | November 14, 2009 at 08:33 AM