Category: blended family
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Podcast 2:12 – Feeling like multiple families
Nine years ago when we got married we had the perfect vision of blending our families. Of course, we wanted it to be like a nuclear family with white picket fences and a dog. What we ended up with was several different family groups and plenty of lessons learned. But we love our blended family…
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Podcast 1:39 – Managing Christmas Stress
Christmas is a wonderful time to reflect and give thanks. But it is often a time of stress, college kids returning home, and in-laws visiting. All of the normal pressures of “Christmas Expectations” is compounded when you add a blended family. Sharing time with your kids, duplicate presents, and who gets to take the kids…
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Podcast 1:33 – Decorating for the Holidays
Decorating for the Holidays is a great tradition that turns a house into a home. For Paige and Darren, this was critical to helping their kids feel somewhat normal after blending the families. Even though we love the way our home is decorated, Darren’s aversion to a disaster of a garage and piles of boxes…
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Podcast 1:27 – Back to school, Boohoo, Woohoo
The fall brings kids going back to school or even leaving home to go to College for the first time. In this episode, we talk about the perils of back to school in a blended family and the emotions of sending kids off to college for the first time. Your browser does not suppoer Kids…
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Episode 1:25 – Friends and Divorce
Friends are yet another tricky subject in divorce. Who gets what friends after a divorce? Does your new spouse make friends with your friends? What happens if you are in the same social circles still? Are there people that want to be friends with both you and your ex? It gets complicated really fast.In this…
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Podcast: 1:22 – Preparing for the worst day of Your life. Navigate Kids Through the Separation
One of the worst days in our lives was telling our kids we were getting divorced. Turns out it is also the worst day in the lives of our kids too. In this episode, we discuss how we navigated the tricky conversation that we had with our kids. Our approaches were very different but we…
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Podcast 1:21 – Open Communication with Your Spouse, Kids and Exes
Open communication is important to any relationship. Don’t mistake open communication for transparency like we did. Transparency is about visibility, open communication is more about how, when and where you communicate. In this episode find out how Darren & Paige muddle through their journey to open communication in their marriage. Listen to the Episode Your…
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Podcast 1:20 – Triggers, How to deal with and avoid them
Triggers exist from previous marriages, childhood trauma and just living life. In this episode, we discuss how we have been able to navigate triggers, sometimes successfully sometimes not so much. Find out how to handle triggers, avoid them and recover from them. Triggers Pavlov’s Dogs – Ring a bell and they salivate. A trigger is…
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Podcast 1:18 – Discipline in Blended Families
How do you discipline children in a blended family? How do you combine your two styles? How do you teach children across multiple households? There are many techniques and opinions on this subject. Now you get to hear our perspective on how we learned how to navigate this treacherous part of blending families. What is…