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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Three Rivers Press Catalog: Book Release date: 2002-02-26 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 272 Ean: 9780609807415 Book Isbn: 0609807412  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthors:
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Love may be sweeter the second time around, but once the bliss of a newfound relationship wears off a little, the reality of being part of a stepfamily sets in. If you are one of the millions of remarried Americans facing the challenge of blending two existing families into one cohesive whole, you are part of a stepcouple—and you know all too well how hard it can be to make your marriage work in sometimes tough terrain. Different parenting styles, finances, relationships with ex-spouses, legal matters, and even seemingly simple issues such as the kinds of chores assigned to children can chisel away at your union if you don’t always make your marriage a priority. Stepcoupling offers advice for stepcouples on how to do just that—all the while strengthening their blended family with a healthy marriage. Susan Wisdom and Jennifer Green provide tips and strategies on dealing with the issues remarried couples face, with a wealth of advice from real-life stepcouples, such as: * Learning to tailor your expectations of your spouse or children and remembering that no family is perfect * Knowing where your boundaries are, whether involving a hostile ex-spouse or a stepchild who demands too much attention * Realizing that traits like flexibility, tolerance, forgiveness, and openness are especially essential in a stepfamily situation * Making “us” time for talking, problem-solving, weekends away, and enjoying your marriage to constantly renew and strengthen your bond as a couple Let this invaluable remarriage manual help you make your stepcouple the foundation of a strong, happy, and successful stepfamily. |
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 Written on January 30, 2007 Summary: The Best One Out There I am a clinical social worker in private therapy practice. I purchased this book three years ago to help a family with whom I was working in therapy. Since then, I have quoted the highlighted passages from my own copy numerous times in sessions, and have loaned the book out so many times that a client finally bought me a newer copy, as a gift for helping her family so much. The best thing about this book is how it highlights the couple relationship. Blended family couples finally have support in creating the foundation for success. Many texts about blending families and helping children deal with divorce focus on how the "children should come first", to the exclusion of what is necessary to keep the adults healthy. Children's needs are certainly paramount, but often that belief feeds a system wherein parents are almost forced to create a triangulated situation between their biological children and their new spouse. This book clearly explains how to avoid that triangulation, and to keep the power where it belongs: with the two adults in the home, as a team. As a structural family therapist, this book helps me to show parents what we mean when we talk about the "executive power system" in the family. In order to have healthy blended families, it is absolutely essential to have a strong parent couple in each family. This book helps the reader with the myths and misconceptions of "step-families", which are really better termed "blended families". It gives good suggestions on how to deal with "the exes" -- the other parents of the children in your home. It addresses the "yours, mine and ours" issues that come up when blended families add more kids to the family. It also addresses special considerations that need to be made when one parent has died. The message of hope throughout this book makes it easy to read and truly finish, especially for parents in busy families. The personal stories from parents in blended families give the reader the sense that they are not alone, and that it will get better. I highly recommend this book, for every blended family parent, and every family therapist working with blended families. Written on June 30, 2006 Summary: A great read This book is one that you will read through and learn a lot from. But, it is also a book that you will be able to pick up and find helpful hints with situations you may be experiencing w/ blending your family. I have read the book and now my fiance is also reading it. It is outlined well and you can quickly find something specific you may be looking for. I would encourage anyone who is planning on blending a family or anyone who is already in the blending process to read this.  Written on June 9, 2006 Summary: NOT a good book for the noncustodial stepmom This book does NOT help with issues a stepmom may have with the childrens mother or with bonding with the step children. IT is a disappointment. Written on September 28, 2005 Summary: This book has become my bible. What a great book! I highly recommend it. With this book I learned about expectations and boundaries, how to deal with an ex-spouse, how to communicate effectively with my new husband,his child and my own children. I was able to relate to the example couples used in this book. It really helped to know that other couples had the same problems and felt the same way about blending families. Blending families is a quite a challenge, but this book helped create a smoother transition for me, my children, my husband and his child. This book also helps to show what the kids are going through and that it's just as difficult for them as it is for the adults. This was a very helpful and imformative book. Written on August 13, 2004 Summary: An Important Reminder About A Stepfamily's Balancing Act The authors identify the many issues that stand in the way of a couple's happiness in blended families--intrusive ex-spouses, difficult stepchildren, a parent's close relationship to his or her biological children, to name just a few. Wisdom and Green constantly encourage readers to nurture the "stepcouple" relationship in the face of these challenges, and provide practical advice about how to do it. The tone is authoritative and hopeful, and the book includes interesting anecdotes from anonymous stepfamily members. "Stepcoupling" is a very useful and well-organized book that will help stepparents and their spouses grapple with many stepfamily challenges. As a parent in a family with "his," "hers" and "ours" kids, I personally found the book both inspiring and overwhelming. It's an important reminder about how hard we must all work in blended families to balance everyone's interests and needs. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2002-02-26 | 2001-03-09 | 2001-09-25 | 1997-01-01 | 1999-03-01 | 2003-04 |
| Media | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 272 | 256 | 272 | 182 | 464 | 320 |
| Ean | 9780609807415 | 9780312253653 | 9780609807446 | 9780812097153 | 9780380796045 | 9781571781291 |
| Book Isbn | 0609807412 | 0312253656 | 0609807447 | 0812097157 | 038079604X | 1571781293 |
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