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There’s no way around it.  Whether your own family is blended or not – statistically speaking –blending will touch you.  Your sister or brother may be members of blended families, your children’s friends may come from blended families, your own friends may be parents in blended families – or, more likely – a combination of [...]

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Thirty years ago, in a different life I was married to a police officer who left our small family for extended periods of time for training. It was all so different in those days, airfare was far more expensive than it is today, there were no such thing as long distance plans and the Internet [...]

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Managing a blended family can be one of the most difficult tasks that anyone will face in a lifetime. Today, a blended family is the norm rather than the exception. If you’re part of a blended family, more than likely you already know how hard it can be to make things work. Today, blended families [...]

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  There is no denying that managing a blended family is a very difficult task. At least 50% of American children are raised in a blended family, according to a report by the University of Houston’s Jennifer Garcia, and when taking common-law families into account, this figure is probably even higher. Of course, many children [...]

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Posted By: Portia Brockway Many of us want our very own Prince Charming, traveling through many love-soaked days and delightful decades with this handsome dream boat. We may want to raise a family with him. Yet some of us hold onto an uncontrollable desire to be totally immersed in and dependent on the man in [...]

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Posted By: Kimberly Byrne Sometimes, life as a married couple isn’t always what one hopes for. Of course, at the beginning everything tends to be just like heaven on earth, but as the months or years pass, small things start to happen that make one realize everything might not be perfect. It can be a [...]

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Celebrate Your Husband This Father’s Day Forget about ties, video cameras, and BBQ supplies. In fact, forget about material items altogether. This Father’s Day, honor the father of your children for the unique individual that he is. Read on for two gift ideas that will hopefully knock his socks off, in one way or another. [...]

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Posted By: Brothers Al and Igor Tolstoy With Father’s Day fast approaching, we began to reflect on memories of our father and the stories he told us of his father, our Grandfather, Boris Anatolyevich Tolstoy.  We remembered bits and pieces of the story of a man who had seen the rise and fall of empires [...]

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Posted By: Portia It was Spring time and I was four years old. My father and I were out in our Connecticut back yard. We stood in front of a lilac bush in full, fragrant bloom. He asked me my favorite color. I considered the purple of the lilac blossom and the green of the [...]

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Father’s Day – A Reminder that the “step” part of “stepdad” doesn’t erase the “dad” part. Go ahead.  Turn on the nightly news.  There are a lot of headlines about fathers who do a lot of things other than love their stepchildren.  The features do little to help out society’s view of the stepdad’s plight.  [...]

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