The DHX: The Doughtie Houses Exchange

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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Marketplace: Lessons for Iran’s working woman - This segment mentions in passing an unusual and heartwarming arrangement than an Iranian mom and stepmom worked out.
Hindsight, Relationships & Looking Inside Me: The Sub - a poem about what it can feel like sometimes to be the stepmom (by way of The Wicked Stepmom)
37days: F is for [...]

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I laughed out loud in the theater when I saw Enchanted’s evil stepmom emerging from the sewer wagging her tongue in and out of her mouth and shooting green lightning bolts from her fingertips. She’s so over the top that she looks like she’s there to poke fun at the Disney stereotype. And based [...]

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