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Featured on XO Marriage: Navigating Relationships with Narcissistic Individuals in your Blended Family

Dealing with narcissistic individuals, whether in a marriage, blended family, co-parenting, or parenting, can be mentally, spiritually, and emotionally draining. You can often feel alone and rejected in narcissistic relationships, and you may wonder whose perspective of reality is the correct one. However, with valuable education and strategies to help navigate these complex relationships, you […]

Featured on XO Marriage: My Spouse is a Narcissist…What Do I Do?

In my role as a therapist, I have worked with people who are dealing with various mental health issues, pain of unresolved and processed trauma, and dysfunctional relationships. As someone who specializes in marriage crises and issues, I’ve noticed an increasingly prevalent issue in marriage—narcissism. While society uses that label for anyone with a lack […]

7 Ways to Ease Sibling Rivalry in Blended Families

When families begin to blend, siblings and stepsiblings often get along great. They are getting to know each other and enjoy doing activities together. When the newness wears off and everyone settles in, sibling rivalry may creep in. Bringing children together under one roof can shake up family dynamics and breed conflicts. Competition over parental […]

Featured on XO Marriage: Navigating Intimacy in Remarriage

Physical intimacy is an essential aspect of any marriage, but it can be particularly challenging for couples in blended families. When either spouse has been intimate with a previous partner or has experienced sexual trauma, those issues can create walls between husband and wife. If you are remarried and experiencing hardship in your physical intimacy, you […]

Navigating Co-Parenting Challenges: Healthy Conversations with Your Spouse

Navigating the complexities of co-parenting can be challenging. When you become frustrated with the situation, it’s important to communicate effectively with your spouse, but unfortunately, the conversation can leave both of you even more upset. How do you talk about co-parent issues without it turning into a gripe session? If you’ve found yourself in that […]

Discipline in Blended Families: 5 Keys to Success

Disciplining children can be challenging in any family, but blended families face unique obstacles. Children may be uncertain about how to relate to a new stepparent, and the biological parents may worry about how their ex’s new spouse might discipline their kids. Maintaining consistency across households adds an extra layer of complexity. To help navigate […]

4 Tips for a Stress-Free Holiday Season as a Blended Family

The holiday season sparks joy and excitement for many families. But for blended families, the season can feel anything but picture-perfect. Between complicated schedules, balancing traditions, and tensions between biological parents, the holidays can present unique challenges. Having navigated blended family life for over ten years, we (Scott and Vanessa) have experienced firsthand the ups […]

5 Things New Stepparents Want Their Spouses to Know

Bringing children into a new marriage is like making s’mores. The graham crackers, gooey marshmallows, and chocolate get squished together, and it can get a little messy. Blending a family can get muddled up, too, with multiple people and their unique histories thrown together to create a unified whole. It can be challenging for a new […]

5 Signs the Enemy is Attacking Your Blended Family and 3 Ways to Defeat Him

Scripture makes clear that we have an enemy, the devil. From the beginning account of his work in Genesis to the last references of him in Revelation, the Bible records his ongoing mission is to steal, kill, and destroy (John 10:10). He hates God and hates anything God loves, including human beings and their families. […]

What Does the Bible Say about Divorce and Remarriage?

When it comes to the topic of divorce, there is no shortage of confusion, frustration, misunderstanding and judgment. Both believers and non-believers have learned explicitly and implicitly that divorce is a sin, and anyone who gets remarried is committing adultery. But what does the Bible actually say? Let’s find out together. The Assumption Some churches teach that […]