A mom and a stepmom share stories, ideas, friendship and family
Posted in Co-parenting, Divorce, Holidays, Love, Parenting, Peacemaking, Remarriage on Apr 26th, 2008
By Katherine Shirek Doughtie
I was selling my book at the LA Times Festival of Books today, when I heard a woman’s voice say “Don’t I know you?” After about five minutes of cross-referencing, we figured out that we had shared a cabin at a church camp about 12 years ago, had had Thanksgiving together [...]
Posted in Co-parenting, Love on Mar 6th, 2008
By Jill Davis Doughtie
“[O]nce you willingly have a baby with someone, there is always love – somewhere.” — Peter Ehrlich
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” — Elie Wiesel
I think we struggle so much across houses in extended stepfamilies because we feel a connection we don’t know what to do with. We have [...]
Posted in Co-parenting, Love on Mar 5th, 2008
Are you thinking this?
“That’s nice that Kathy and Jill sing Kumbaya together every weekend while braiding daisies into each other’s hair, but they’re just lucky! I would love to have such a reasonable mom/stepmom in my life, but mine is just a whole different kind of person.”
Or this?
“I don’t want to be friends with the [...]
“The word ‘love’ is so overused in our culture today and frequently misunderstood. I do believe, however, that the fountainhead or foundation for success in [...]
Posted in Love on Feb 20th, 2008
“Honor any resistance you feel inside yourself.” — paraphrase from a yoga video
What if we applied this to our stepfamily situations? In yoga it’s important to honor the resistance we feel because we need to be careful not to injure ourselves while stretching, and because change and trasformation happen gradually. (I’m an occasional yoga video [...]
