The DHX: The Doughtie Houses Exchange

The people who know Kathy best in the world tend to be pretty nice to me. They seem to like me, accept me and welcome me. And I love that. And I love them for that. And plus, I just like them. Kathy has great friends.
The people who know Kathy more than they know me, [...]

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By Jill Davis Doughtie

We played a game once at work called “The Saboteur”. We were divided into teams. Every team would have a saboteur — someone whose job it was to secretly undermine the team’s project without being caught. One by one we were called up to the front of the room to be shown [...]

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“All appears to change when we change.” — Henri Amiel
I didn’t always know Kathy the way I know her now. In the second half of our interview at Continuing the Stepparenting Journey, I told Karon that Kathy is “flexible, warm, open, willing to keep showing up and trying, and willing to start over and over [...]

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A little history from Lori at the real world:
“Part of what I felt in the marriage and after, was abandonment. Not where he would leave for days on end or anything, but rather that he was constantly at work. It seemed to me that he did not want to make time for me or that [...]

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It’s really, really hard to be a stepmom. The level of challenge is huge compared to the skills so many of us have going into the gig. And the sacrifice is perpetual. Some of us won’t end up having babies, even though we want them very, very much, because it’s part of the bargain of [...]

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