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What if all the stepmoms and all the moms realized they are on the same team?
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What if there were no pissing matches and turf wars?
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What if the kids were viewed as people, and not as timeshares?
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What if it wasn’t about who is responsible for what, and just about making sure that the kids are taken care of?
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What if stepmoms weren’t viewed as a threat and just an extra person to love the kids?
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What if the moms weren’t viewed as the husbands ex, but as the mother of the most important people in the stepmoms lives. .
What if it wasn’t about keeping score?
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What if it stopped being a competition about who is the better parent, and started being an ongoing conversation about how to raise stand up kids
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What if all the adults put their adult issues on the shelf, and focused on what truly matters.
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What if?
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Do you resent the BS or struggles in your life or are you grateful for them? Full disclosure, I spent a long time being pretty angry about mine. But recently I’ve become freaking grateful for all the BS.
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Why? because if didn’t go through all the things I have, I wouldn’t be living the life that I am today.
Divorced parents, growing up separately from my siblings, dealing with other stuff that I’ll spare you the details of, anger and abandonment issues, marrying a man with kids, our co-parenting struggles. I am grateful for ALL OF IT!
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If my parents hadn’t gotten a divorce, I wouldn’t have been so passionate about sharing what stepfamily life is like from a child’s perspective. In fact, I wouldn’t have a perspective to share.
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If I wasn’t such a sh*t growing up, I wouldn’t have the drive to prove family members wrong, and show them that I wasn’t destined for juvinelle detention (for the record, that is NOT an exaggeration. There were cops at my door and not just once)
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If I hadn’t struggled so much during my first year as a stepmom I wouldn’t have been motivated to create real-life, solution focused support for other women like me. I wouldn’t feel so compelled to open up the conversation about blended family life and debunk the stigma that comes with this role.
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To add a cherry on top, if I hadn’t been so overwhelmed when our daughter was born, I wouldn’t have needed a “girls-night out” and subsequently attended an event that introduced me to the world of blogging.I wouldn’t have known that any of this existed. .
All of the struggles and mistakes came with lessons, that have brought me right here, right now.
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Guys, there was a time in my life, as recent as last year, where I wouldn’t have said any of this out loud. At that point, I preferred that people thought I had it all together.
But after receiving an outpour of gratitude from stepmoms after the release of my eBook 101 Ways TO Be A KICK-ASS Stepmom, I know that being real and straight up about everything I have learned has helped SO many other women feel normal. So if for every 1000 people who think it’s whacked that I say the things I do - 1 feels inspired, I’m good with that!

Just hanging out on the steps, taking mirror selfies, until it’s appropriate to pour myself a glass of vino! Anyone with me? 🍷
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P.S - Yes I know my planter is too big for my pot! 😌

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