Over the months, many of you have written me about your concerns as women with stepchildren. I'd like to list and address the top ten — so I need your help. What's on your list of top concerns? Here are some ideas from all of you so far (not in any order)...
I'll be talking to Erin Erickson of The Erin Experiment and Peggy Nolan of The Stepmom's Toolbox on their Stepmom's Toolbox Radio show Monday March 1 at 8 pm. Check out the link — and please tune in!
Susan Wisdom, LPC, is answering a question she hears a lot when she does therapy with couples in repartnerships with children: "How do we balance the needs of his kids with our needs as a couple?"
I recently posted a piece on my blog that summarizes the research on how and why friendship is good for you. Now I want to know about YOUR friendships and support networks.
Do you have a Valentine's Day hangover? Have you read a million articles and heard a million news reports about marriage and love and crazy proposal schemes and so on over the last days and weeks? Couples and romance are big news — and big business. With so much recent emphasis on the couple bond, romance, love, sex, and so on during the build-up to Valentine's Day, some other very important relationships may not have gotten their due.
I often find myself in a mind-meld with Kela Price, co-founder of the recently re-named Today's Modern Family web site (it used to be Blended Family Soap Opera. Being me, I had my reservations about the "blended" part — but felt she and her partner Diane Green were right on target with the "soap opera" half of the equation). Kela and Diane run an informative, supportive site and Kela authored the tremendously popular "Healthy Marriage or Healthy Divorce?" that had us all talking recently.
For any Canadian blog followers and FB fans, please tune in to your local CBC radio station tomorrow a.m. to hear me talk about the state of marriage in 2010, which will be running on numerous CBC morning shows nationally ! And call your local CBC station if you'd like them to air the interview.
Marty Babits is a friend, colleague, and truly gifted therapist who does individual and couples work. His book The Middle Ground is one of the few out there that speaks not just to people in relationships, but those of us in remarriages or repartnerships with children as well.
A few days ago I published a piece on psychologytoday.com called "Is Marriage Necessary?" You can also link to it via the post below.
As we count down to Valentine's day in this Love, Sex, Romance, Power series, today I ask the question, "Is Marriage Necessary?" What can psychologists and couples therapists — and married people — learn from the history and sociology of marriage?
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