The DHX: The Doughtie Houses Exchange

CoolMom: Second-Hand Husbands
Becoming a Stepmom: Smackdown for Stepmoms: Visualize Your Ideal Stepfamily

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StevePavilina.com: Soulful Relationships – “…the best we can do with our lives is to achieve the point of optimal balance whereby serving our own needs and serving the whole body are congruent… Interdependence is a higher level of consciousness than independence.  Fear serves the latter; fearlessness, the former.”  (more) 
Oprah.com: Meditations for Interacting with Others – Guided meditations [...]

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A Stepmom’s Say: About Mommy – “Nothing has brought me more angry comments and viciousness, than the fact that I let the reader know that my stepsons call me “Mom.” I totally understand the passion behind these comments, but often disagree with the reasoning.” (more)
Typical Momma: To Be Or Not To Be Mom – “If [...]

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Breed ‘Em And Weep: Having it made and unmade – “This is what one gives up, succumbing to divorce, releasing into the wild a love you once were sure you had made.” (link)
Paul Graham: Lies We Tell Kids – “Adults lie constantly to kids. I’m not saying we should stop, but I think we [...]

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Parenting Advice: Working It Out After Divorce – Co-Parenting As A Lifelong Process – “Children feel all the tension that exists between their divorced parents. And they often suffer when parents ignore this tension or act out from it. Children often feel ‘in the middle’ (and are sadly, too often placed in the middle when [...]

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Woulda Coulda Shoulda: Life isn’t fair – “I have to believe that it will be okay, somehow. I sit here and try to push King Solomon out of my mind’s eye. Instead, I replace him with Chickadee and Monkey as grown adults rather than the gangly weeds they currently are, and in my vision they [...]

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WWdN: In Exile: in which we get the band back together – Wil Wheaton, his stepson and his wife make memories together on their Xbox.*
My Inner Edge: Peace I Give Unto You – My Inner Edge posts a poem about peace by Neil Douglas Klotz: “…When you feel this peace… / You cannot be carried [...]

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Steve Pavlina: Whatever You Fear, You Must Face – “The reward for facing fear is that you get to be fully alive. When you turn towards your fear, you feel the breath of life blowing straight at you, and it’s very refreshing. You feel awake and energized. It’s not that you become an adrenaline junky. [...]

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Jennifer Wolf: Top 10 Ways to Rebuild Trust With Your Ex – “9. Visualize a Positive Future – Visualization can be a powerful tool in creating the future you want for your children and yourself. Instead of focusing all your energy on what has not gone well in the past, create an image in your [...]

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Physorg.com: Punishment does not earn rewards or cooperation, study finds – This study isn’t about parenting — it’s about punishment as a way to encourage or discourage certain behavior among collaborators. I couldn’t help thinking about relationships between houses in extended stepfamilies when I read it. “‘Put simply, winners don’t punish,’ says co-author David G. [...]

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