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FamilyLife Blended® Podcast — 184 episodes

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195: Stepmom Advice: 10 Things I Would Do Over as a Stepmother

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194: What “God Hates Divorce” Gets Right—and Very Wrong

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193: Restoring Trust After Sexual Betrayal

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192: Jim Burns: When Adult Children Stray

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191: Father’s Day Feels Weird: Blended Family Grief and Hope

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190: The Mother's Day You Never Wanted: Hope for Hurting Moms and Stepmoms

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189: Widowhood to Remarriage: Blending Families with Ongoing Grief - Daniel and Brittany Brooker

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188: Growing up Blended: Micah Scharchburg

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187: Worship through Grief: Matt and Kari Perkins

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186: Is Fear Running Your Stepfamily? (Here’s How to Spot It)--Gayla Grace

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185: This Was Never the Plan: Walking with God through the Heartache of Divorce

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184: Parenting & Grandparenting kids about tech, phones, and screens

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183: Grief Triggers and Tender Triumphs: Happy Chaos in a Blended Family

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182: Blended and Blessed book, Building Healing through the Beatitudes

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181: Beauty in the Broken: A Kintsugi Approach to Blended Family Life

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180: Tinsel, Tension, Togetherness: Navigating Your Blended Family Christmas--Mike and Kim Anderson

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179: From Shock to Strength: Unplanned Pregnancy in a Blended Family

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178: We Struggled to Blend. Now We Help Blended Families Thrive

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177: Gary Chapman: Keys to a Successful Marriage

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176: How to Help Kids Cope with Divorce and Remarriage

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175: Blended Holidays Are Complicated. Here’s How They Made It Work

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174: More Than Just A Stepparent: Helping a Grieving Child Heal

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173: When Your Brains Are Different: Finding Your Way in a Neurodivergent Marriage

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172: Beautifully Blended: Devotions and Resources for Every Kind of Blended Family

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171: How To Navigate In-Law Relationships: Building Bridges, Not Battlegrounds

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170: 2025 Blended and Blessed: Answering Your Blended Family Dilemmas

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169: Growing up Blended: The Hidden Grief Kids Carry

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168: Learning from Stepfamilies of the Bible

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167: Unrecognized Loss, Unexpressed Grief

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166: The Six Stages on Your Stepfamily Journey

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165: Two Homes, One Team: Co-Parenting for Your Kids' Well-being

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164: Building Character for Stronger Relationships: Developing the 4 Essential Character Traits to Raise Resilient Kids

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163: Cutting the Tension: Building Trust Between a Stepmom and Stepdaughter

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162: One Family's Journey to Blended Unity: Looking Back to the Teenage Years

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161: Growing Up Blended, and Navigating the Maze to Build Strong Blended Bonds

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160 From Shame to Strength: A Single Mom's Journey to Healing and Hope

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159 The 3-Step Guide to Navigating Hard Feelings in Your Blended Family

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158 Prodigal Parents: Rebuilding Relationships with Children and Not Losing Your Influence

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157 "I see you": Creating Community for Brown & Black Blended Families

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156 Playing Hurt: A Guy’s Strategy for a Winning Marriage

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155 A New Year, An Improved Self, A Better Marriage

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154 From Their Perspective: Adjusting to a Bigger Family, Luke Landwer

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153 From Their Perspective: Talking With A Young Adult, Amelia Dellaripa

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152 From Their Perspective: Losing a Dad and Life with a Stepdad with Davis & Campbell Faulkner

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151 Practicing Gratitude in Your Blended Family

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150 Parenting Foster Kids & Adopted Kids

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149 A Special Edition: Growing Up Blended After Parental Loss: Laura Husband

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148 Dealing With A Narcissist

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147 Reimagining Christian Sabbath

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146 Stepfamilies: Stepparent Dynamics and Your Marriage

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145 Physical Intimacy Issues for Stepfamily Couples

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144 Hope Is What the Dr. Ordered

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143 Ghosts of Marriage Past—Dealing with Relationship Baggage

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142 Troubled Teens & Addiction Help

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141 Overcoming Stepparenting Myths

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140 A Home Built From Love & Loss

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139: Growing Up Blended: My Stepdad

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138: Cancer, NFL, and Family

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137: Broken: Help for Family Problems

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136: Help Me with My Finances

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135: Growing Up Blended: Kim Walker Smith’s Story

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134: Being a Stepparent: Is it a Blessing?

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133: Remarrying After Loss

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132: Growing Up Blended: Navigating Loss

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131: God’s Purpose and Intent for Sexuality

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130: Coping With Traumatic Events

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129: Stepparent Vs Bio Parent: Seeing Conflicts Differently

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128: Organize Your Life

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127: Getting Remarried?

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126: Strained Relationships with Adult Kids

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125: How To Be Thankful in a Blended Family

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124: Helping Your Kids With Their Emotions

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123: How To Overcome Co-parenting Conflict

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122: Blending a Family: Where Do I Start?

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121: Lessons from Adoptive Parents

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120: Blended Family Christmas: Tips to reduce holiday stress

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119: Parenting Teens During the Loneliness Epidemic

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118: Blended Family Dynamics – The Enneagram Types Explained

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117: Trusting God in Difficult Times

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116: Divorce Grief– Breaking Soul Ties

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115: Stepchildren and Marriage: How to Build Trust

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114: Men in Blended Families: Why You Need a Strong Support System

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113: Bonus Dad Pro Tips from Mike

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112: Stepmom Help: Pro Tips from Jen & Bill

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111: Custody Battles and Court Conversation

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110: Growing Up Blended: Dr. Darrell Bock

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109 Who Comes First in a Blended Family?

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108: Prioritize Marriage in Your Home

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107: Blending a Family: Strategies that Don’t Work

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106: Scripture for Families in Need of Encouragement

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105: Stepfamily Relationship Building: Stepping Stones for Success

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104: Kids, Culture, Phones, and the Other Home

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103: Alienated: One Child’s Journey to Reconnect (A Parental Alienation story)

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102: Working Smarter, Not Harder

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101: Christmas: Recovering Joy

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100: FamilyLife Blended: The Birth of a Movement

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99: Growing Up Blended: Changing the Course of Your Family Legacy

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98: Dating and the Single Parent, Revisited

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97: Protecting Your Kids From Porn

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96: Get On Board

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95: Good Parenting, Good Stepparenting

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94: The Honeymoon: Blended Families: 10 Years and Beyond

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93: Ministering to Blended Families

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92: The Fields Are White for Harvest: Teaching Pastors Speak Out About Blended Family Ministry

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91: Bonus Q&A: More Answers to Questions Blended Families Ask

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90: Bonus Q&A: You Ask, We Answer

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89: Bonus Q&A: Blended Questions with Kirk

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88: Bonus Q&A: Stepfamily Questions with Don and Sandi

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87: Well Blended

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86: Bi-Polar Value Differences Between Homes

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85: Terrible Loss, Unexpected Love

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84: Relationship Essentials – Tools for Healthier Relationships

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83: Unsung Heroes

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82: It’s All Fun and Games

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81: Bonus Moms: Refined for Good

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79: Advice to Children: What Experts Might Say to Your Kids

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69: Good Co-Parenting: Conflict and Cooperation with Your Ex

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68: Preparing to Blend: Getting ready for life after the wedding

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67: Blended with Grit: Widowhood and Forming a New Family

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66: A Healthy Sex Life: What Couples Should Know

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65: Turn Your Season and Your Life Around

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64: Seasons and Rhythms: Strengthening Your Family Throughout the Year

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63: Growing up in a Blender: Shelby Abbott

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62: Pressure to Perform: When it Feels Like the World is Watching

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61: Love Mercy: Divorce & Remarriage in the Bible

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60: Grace-filled Stepparenting

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59: Conversations to Improve Your Family

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58: Investing for Life After Kids

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57: The Smart Stepdad

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56: Adult Stepfamilies

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55: The Smart Stepmom

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54: The Power of God at Work in Stepfamilies

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53: Managing Yourself in the Midst of the Unknown

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52: Blended and Blessed Backstage

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51: Growing Up in a Blender: Play the Long Game

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50: Parenting Troubled Children in Stepfamilies

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49: Blended Kingdom Families podcast

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48: Sending & Receiving Kids Between Homes

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47: Lessons From the School of Hard-Knocks

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46: Autism and the Blended Family

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45: Adult Stepfamilies: Joys and Challenges with the Holidays

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44: Overcoming Emotional Abandonment in Marriage

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43: Growing Up in a Blender: Who’s my Daddy?

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42: Military Stepfamilies: Mission Ready

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41: Raising Kids in a Toxic Culture

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40: Battle of the Moms

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39: Grandparenting and the Blended Family

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38: Daily Practices for Happy Stepcouples

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37: Co-Parents, Teachers, and Your Child’s Education

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36: Crisis Counselor Tips for Managing Crisis

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35: Second Wife, Second Life

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34: Finding Support for Your Family

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33: Bonus Parenting

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32: The Essentials of Co-parenting

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31: Mother’s & Father’s Day in Blended Families

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30: Re-Sex: The Challenges of Sex for Blended Family Couples

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29: When A Parent Goes M.I.A.

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28: Growing Up in a Blender

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27: Beyond Broken

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26: Two Homes, Two Sets of Values: From a Child’s Point of View

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25: Building Love Together in Blended Families

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24: Blending Despite Betrayal

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22: The Clutter-Free Home, the Clutter-Free Family

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21: Stepfamilies and The Holidays

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20: About to Blend

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19: Financing Togetherness in Blended Families

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18: The Blessing and Your Blended Family

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17: Grief and the Blended Family

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16: The Childless Stepmom

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15: Navigating Your Custody Battle

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14: In Their Shoes

172

13: Calming Angry Kids

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12: Overcoming Betrayal

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11: Undone: Making Peace With the Life You Have

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10: A Battle for Your Child and a Fight For Your Marriage

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9: Stepparenting With Grace

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8: Parenting After Divorce

178

7: Eternity Is Now in Session

179

6: Challenging Co-Parent Situations and Parent Alienation

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5: Daily Bread for the Starving Stepmom

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4: Caught Between Your Spouse and Your Family

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3: The Good News About Marriage

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2: Life in a Blender: Dave and Ann Wilson

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1: Blended Families, Identity, and Different Last Names