5 Tips for blending your family peacefully

5 Tips for blending your family peacefully

Have you remarried recently, and are you blending your families? Are you planning to get remarried? Remarrying when one or both of you have children can be a complex journey to embark upon. A third of Americans today are part of a stepfamily structure. When both of a...
the Pursuer-Distancer Dynamic

the Pursuer-Distancer Dynamic

Having counseled couples for more than 30 years and conducted original research, Terry Gaspard knows the pitfalls and the landmines. Unfinished business with exes (and other old baggage), pressures of dealing with debt and handling money, blending families, finding...
Fighting to make marriage work…

Fighting to make marriage work…

https://www.focusonthefamily.com/media/daily-broadcast/valuing-marriage-in-a-culture-that-doesnt  There’s a lot of negativity in our society about marriage. From attempts to redefine what it is, to a widespread perception that it’s just too hard and will...
Fighting to make marriage work…

A Time to Grieve During Stepfamily Holidays

Three helpful hints I use to navigate the holidays in my blended family. by Sabrina McDonald.  Family Life Ministries Monthly newsletter – Strenthening Stepfamilies My stepson Will and daughter-in-law, Kirsten, were driving in from Dallas to stay...

your impact matters…

Your Marriage: You Have No Idea of the Good You Are Doing by  Doug Mainwaring within Marriage March 7th, 2017 None of us can truly gauge the impact of our lives on others. The most riveting, wise, and helpful statement I have heard in recent years was...