Navigating Conflict With Grace As A Stepmom
Conflict in stepfamilies is normal. Here’s how stepmoms can respond with grace, clarity, and confidence—even when things feel tense or unpredictable.
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Conflict in stepfamilies is normal. Here’s how stepmoms can respond with grace, clarity, and confidence—even when things feel tense or unpredictable.
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Read MoreKim. Renewing our vows had more meaning to us than we ever thought. Even writing about it and remembering this warms my heart. I think the marriage is the beginning of a journey together as a couple and a family. Renewing those commitments helps you to see how you grow together and change together.
I look forward to hearing your plans on your renewal day.
Thank you Peggy. Hugs to you and Rick.
This is a truly beautiful story!! I can’t imagine trying to move that quickly, and on top of it this comes.
It’s amazing Bethany what a person is capable of doing at the very last minute. If someone had told me in the past that I would have to move, sell my home and business, find a new one and arrange all the paper work in 33 days, I would have told them they were crazy and it can’t be done. Well I even surprised myself.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
OMG, Claudette, you had me laughing and crying at the same time with this story! So beautiful. It does remind me of how my husband and I snuck off to get married at City Hall because we didn’t want to get mixed up in any drama with certain family members being upset and causing stink. I think it would be lovely to do it “properly” one day. You have inspired me. Wait, ’til I tell my husband! 😉
I love this story! Hugs to you and Bernard!!
this is amazing! i love this story! i laughed out loud at several points! PS my husband is canadian too, and i ‘tricked’ him into marrying me because it would cost much lesser for me to do my MBA there. we got married, and we have 2 kids, and now live in singapore. I never did get that MBA 🙂
#gingerbreadmum (from UBC!) stopping by to say hi!
When your kids wanted to go to University, we gave them several options. One was that they had to go to a State school (we were not prepared for the high cost of American Education) or go to Canada. They opted to go back to Montreal and get their BA their.
Singapore is not the same as Canada. You can always go back to school later. I did. I finished my BA when I was 45. It took me 9 years.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and comments.
I’m so impressed by your story! It seems the very act of renewing vows after many years seems actually more meaningful that the original ones. Very inspirational story.
Carolan, for us, it actually renewed our commitment to one another. After 20 years, we sometimes get “comfortable” with each other. Friends of ours were moved and inspired by our vows and celebration and considered having some sort of celebration themselves.
Others, decided that they had been unhappy for too long and needed to do some changes in their lives.
We are definitely renewing our vows again in two years with just our kids and grandkids present and keeping it simple.
Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts.
Kim. Renewing our vows had more meaning to us than we ever thought. Even writing about it and remembering this warms my heart. I think the marriage is the beginning of a journey together as a couple and a family. Renewing those commitments helps you to see how you grow together and change together.
I look forward to hearing your plans on your renewal day.
Thank you Peggy. Hugs to you and Rick.
This is a truly beautiful story!! I can’t imagine trying to move that quickly, and on top of it this comes.
It’s amazing Bethany what a person is capable of doing at the very last minute. If someone had told me in the past that I would have to move, sell my home and business, find a new one and arrange all the paper work in 33 days, I would have told them they were crazy and it can’t be done. Well I even surprised myself.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
OMG, Claudette, you had me laughing and crying at the same time with this story! So beautiful. It does remind me of how my husband and I snuck off to get married at City Hall because we didn’t want to get mixed up in any drama with certain family members being upset and causing stink. I think it would be lovely to do it “properly” one day. You have inspired me. Wait, ’til I tell my husband! 😉
I love this story! Hugs to you and Bernard!!
this is amazing! i love this story! i laughed out loud at several points! PS my husband is canadian too, and i ‘tricked’ him into marrying me because it would cost much lesser for me to do my MBA there. we got married, and we have 2 kids, and now live in singapore. I never did get that MBA 🙂
#gingerbreadmum (from UBC!) stopping by to say hi!
When your kids wanted to go to University, we gave them several options. One was that they had to go to a State school (we were not prepared for the high cost of American Education) or go to Canada. They opted to go back to Montreal and get their BA their.
Singapore is not the same as Canada. You can always go back to school later. I did. I finished my BA when I was 45. It took me 9 years.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and comments.
I’m so impressed by your story! It seems the very act of renewing vows after many years seems actually more meaningful that the original ones. Very inspirational story.
Carolan, for us, it actually renewed our commitment to one another. After 20 years, we sometimes get “comfortable” with each other. Friends of ours were moved and inspired by our vows and celebration and considered having some sort of celebration themselves.
Others, decided that they had been unhappy for too long and needed to do some changes in their lives.
We are definitely renewing our vows again in two years with just our kids and grandkids present and keeping it simple.
Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts.