The DHX: The Doughtie Houses Exchange

A comment to the “Wicked Step Mother” post I wrote awhile ago has been disturbing me for the past few days. I already replied within that thread, but I feel that this topic requires more open discussion.
The comment is that maybe it’s not in a woman’s DNA to love someone else’s kids, and that [...]

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I have deer-in-the-headlight moments when meeting people with step-situations, too. Yesterday I met someone with a similar — but different — family set-up, and I couldn’t think of how to keep the conversation going. I found myself sitting there smiling blankly while thinking up things to say and then ruling them out because I couldn’t [...]

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Now that I’ve changed jobs to work closer to home, Jill and I have been getting together for a weekly lunch. This has been great and I look forward to it every week. Mostly we yak about girl stuff — relationships, hopes, fears — but it’s also a chance to sneak in a [...]

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I’ll be at BlogHer this coming weekend.
If you’re going and would like to meet up, email me at jilldoughtie@gmail.com.
If it helps for folks planning to be there in person, here’s what I look like…

…when I’m wearing a helmet. But I won’t have a bike helmet on. I’m mostly posting this because it’s got a picture [...]

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Izzy Rose of Stepmother’s Milk and Samara of Simplicity in the Suburbs are planning a retreat for stepmoms this summer, August 8-11, in Austin, Texas.

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