May 10th, 2012
Hope you will have a look at my latest post on psychologytoday.com about the phenomenon which is Fifty Shades of Grey

American women get behind Fifty Shades of Grey
Tags: bondage, female sexuality, Fifty Shades of Grey, psychology today, psychologytoday.com, S&M, stepmonster, wednesday martin
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April 2nd, 2012
The new issue of StepMom magazine is now available. In it, you will find sound advice, compassion and the information you need to keep yourself and your partnership strong. Hope you will have a look at my piece of Disengaging. What are the benefits of doing less in your remarriage with children? Is disengaging for you?

Read all about it--including my article on disengaging
Tags: adult stepchildren, blended family, divorce, family, remarriage, remarriage with children, stepchild, stepchildren, Stepmom Magazine, stepmonster, stepmother, stepmother advice, stepmother support, wednesday martin, woman with stepchildren
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January 19th, 2012

Come learn the issues--and how to deal with them--with others who have been there!
Save the date–I will be co-conducting a workshop with Dr. Rachelle Katz (author of The Happy Stepmother) on Saturday April 21 at the Open Center of New York City. Women with stepchildren of any age and their partners are welcome. So are therapists and other professionals who work with repartnered couples with children, or want to learn more about stepfamily dynamics and the issues remarrieds with children of any age face.
Tags: blended family, couples workshop, divorce, Dr. Rachelle Katz, family, Ph.D., remarriage with children, remarried couples, reparthership with children, step mother, stepmonster, stepmother, stepmother advice, stepmother support, wednesday martin
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January 3rd, 2012

Read all about it--a publication by, for and about women with stepkids!
Happy New Year, and happy 3rd birthday to Stepmom Magazine.
The January issue has more of what you count on it for…sound advice, reassurance, and insight from stepparenting experts and authors like Mary Kelly-Williams, Susan Wisdom, Jenna Korf and Heather Hetchler, to name a few. Check it out…including my piece, “Pulling the Plug on Perfect,” about how letting go of our fixation on happy endings and blended families frees us up to enjoy our lives and our relationships as never before.
Tags: blended family, divorce, family, remarriage with children, step mother, stepfamily, Stepmom Magazine, stepmonster, stepmother, stepmother advice, stepmother support, wednesday martin
Posted in misc, your marriage/partnership | 6 Comments »
December 15th, 2011

Now what? The secret to a happy marriage on psychologytoday.com
If you are married to or partnered with a man with an ex and kids, you need every leg up you can get to keep yourself sane–and keep your partnership alive. Hope you will read my latest on psychologytoday.com. Then tell your husband or partner what happily married people are doing all the time…and leave a comment!
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/stepmonster/201112/give-it-me-often-the-surprising-secret-happy-marriage
Tags: blended family, divorce, family, predictors of divorce, predictors of happy marriage, predictors of martial satsifaction, psychology today, remarriage, remarriage with children, step mother, stepfamily, stepmonster, stepmother, stepmother advice, stepmother support, wednesday martin, woman with stepchildren
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October 19th, 2011

All over China, people are asking themselves how this could have happened–the story of two-year-old Yueyue
Tags: bystander effect, China, china hit and run, china toddler hit and run, compensation culture, diffusion of responsibility, female infanticide, guanxi, rise of China, social psychology, stepmonster, wednesday martin, yueyue
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October 4th, 2011

Lots of great articles on topics that matter to YOU
The
October issue of StepMom Magazine is live! In it you will find articles by experts and women with stepchildren who walk the walk. You will find great advice and insight in these pages. This month I write about women with stepchildren and negativity. What is your best “fix” when you find yourself in a negativity spiral? Tell me about it.
Tags: blended family, divorce, family, step mother, stepfamily, stepfamily statistics, stepfamily support, Stepmom Magazine, stepmonster, stepmother, stepmother advice, stepmother statistics, stepmother support, wednesday martin, woman with stepchildren
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September 28th, 2011

Have a listen, post a comment
Here’s a link to a
radio interview I recently did with stepfamily therapist Mary Kelly-Williams, M.A. of marriedwithbaggage.com on her Blog Talk Radio show. We discussed childless and childfree women with stepchildren, their particular issues and challenges. Hope you will have a listen! Separately, blogger Kim Cottrell wonders “What to call us? Childfree sounds egocentric, childless sounds deprived.” What do you think? Do we need a new term?
Tags: blended family, blog talk radio, divorce, divorce with children, family, Mary Kelly-Williams, step mother, stepfamily, stepfamily statistics, stepmother, stepmother adjustment, stepmother advice, stepmother statistics, stepmother support, woman with stechildren
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September 26th, 2011

Testing, testing...please tune in!
I will be discussing the emotional reality of childless and child-free stepmothers with host Mary Kelly-Williams, M.A. on her Blog Talk Radio show September 27 at 11 am EST. Hope you will tune in…you can also call into the show to ask a question.
Tags: blended family, blog talk radio, child-free, childless stepmother, divorce, family, marraige, Mary Kelly-Williams, remarriage, remarriage with children, step mother, stepchild, stepfamily, stepmonster, stepmother, stepmother advice, stepmother support, wednesday martin
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September 15th, 2011

This is even harder than it looks...
Hope you will have a look at my latest piece for psychologytoday.com….on working mothers in America. What’s your childcare situation? How’s it working for you? Have a read…and leave a comment.
Tags: Allison Pearson, blended family, daycare, divorce, family, I Don't Know How She Does It, maternal leave policy, Sarah Jessica Parker, step mother, stepmonster, stepmother, stepmother advice, stepmother support, wednesday martin, working mother
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