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Welcome to Successful Stepfamilies |
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Autographed Copies of The Smart Stepfamily |
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Review of The Smart Stepfamily by Michael McManus |
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Natalie's Dec Welcome Letter |
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Evelyn Husband Thompson |
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Praise for The Smart Stepmom |
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The Remarriage Checkup book endorsments |
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Foreword to The Remarriage Checkup |
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The Remarriage Checkup -- Preface |
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Press Release - The Remarriage Checkup |
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The Smart Stepfamily |
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Book Review |
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Conferences |
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Scheduled Conference Events |
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Amarillo Stepfamily Conference |
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Ministering to Stepfamilies in Amarillo! |
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Host a Stepfamily Conference |
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Conference Endorsements |
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Sample Conference Brochure |
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Seminar Planner for Churches - pdf file download |
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Combination Kids/Adult Seminar |
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Thursday/Sunday Workshop: "Becoming a SMART Stepfamily" |
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"We Want to Host a Conference" Request |
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Download Stepfamily Conference Promotional Video |
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Typical Conference Schedule |
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Host Church Information & Promotional Support |
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Typical Conference Schedule |
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Host other marriage & family seminars |
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Host Ron's Passionate Sexuality Conference |
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Participants Comment on the Passionate Sexuality Conference |
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Attend the Passionate Sexuality Conference |
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After the Conference |
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Couple Checkup - Understand, Share, Grow |
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Why Take the Couple Checkup? |
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I've got a problem taking the Checkup |
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Videos & Articles to Improve your Life or Ministry |
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Q & A: Smart Questions, Smart Answers |
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Marriage |
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When You Aren't Your Spouse's Priority |
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When You Share a Ghost |
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Remarriage Sex: Better, Worse, or the Same? |
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Children & Stepparenting |
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Relationships With Adult Stepchildren |
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A Biological Parent's Rejection |
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Differences Between Children |
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Pictures from the Past |
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What to Call a Stepparent? |
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Bio Parent Cutting Off the Stepparent |
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Bedroom Dilemmas for Your Kid and Mine |
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Second-Half Stepfamilies: Adult Stepchildren |
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I Don't Like My Stepson. |
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To Spend or Not To Spend as Much as the Other Home? |
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My Husband Won't Talk to My Daughter |
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Holding Kids Hostage |
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Should I Relay Messages to My Stepchildren? |
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Pop Tart Stepmom |
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My 15 Year-Old Won't Accept My New Family |
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Waiting for a Child's Return from Selfishness |
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Waiting for Father / Overwhelmed by Expectation |
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When Kids Lie to the Other Household |
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The Name Game |
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Lost Nerve |
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Parenting After the Death of a Parent |
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Cohabitation and a New Dad? |
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Finding Healing for Stepparents and Stepchildren |
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Drug/Alcohol Addiction: What's a Stepparent to Do? |
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Pre-Stepfamily |
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Dating Someone with Kids |
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Should I Wait to Remarry Until the Kids Are Gone? |
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Why is my child "hot and cold" toward my girlfriend? |
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Future husband won't discipline his kids |
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Moving Kids Away from the Other Home After the Wedding |
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Do-It-Yourself Pre-stepfamily Preparation |
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Your Feedback: Premarital Preparation |
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Dating, PDA, and Reactions from Children |
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The Past |
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Anger and Unresolved Emotions |
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Boundary Setting with an Ex-Spouse |
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When Ex's Are Too Close |
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Christmas of Divorce |
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I’m Uncomfortable with My Wife’s Past |
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My Wife is Uncomfortable with My Past |
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Naked on the Living Room Floor |
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Bi-Polar Ex-Spouse |
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Spiritual Matters |
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Divorce, Sin, and Remarriage |
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Book Signing |
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Is it right to divorce if the previous divorce wasn't Biblically acceptable? |
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Is Remarriage "Covenant" Marriage? |
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Articles for Stepfamilies |
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Stepfamily Living |
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How God Uses Family Life to Disciple Us |
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Stepping Up in a Stepfamily |
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Don't Go Nuclear! |
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"DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? …..NO!" |
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How to Cook a Stepfamily |
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Soothing Holiday Stresses |
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Combining Holiday and Family Traditions |
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Six Ways to Avoid Holiday Step-Stress This Christmas |
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When the "White Picket Fence" Fades |
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Twenty Pro-Active Suggestions for Bridge Building in Blended Families |
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Is There Sunken Treasure in Your Home? |
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No Apologies Necessary: Building Your Home With Purpose |
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Learning to Roll With Change |
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Living Arrangements |
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Food Fight! |
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"Thankful, Thanksgiving Stories" |
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New Beginnings |
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Working Together |
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Playing Together |
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Stepfamily Math |
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Tradition, Tradition! Creating Christ-Centered Traditions for Your Thanksgiving & Christmas |
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Six Steps Forward, Not Looking Back |
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Unrealistic Expectation #439: My Life is My Own |
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Counting the Dog Years |
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Not for Sale! |
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Tightrope |
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A Touch of Inspiration Out of the Mouth of Babes |
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The Stepfamily Vacation |
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11 Survival Tips for the Early Years |
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One is Silver, the Other Gold |
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Holiday Hope… for Single Parents and Blending Families |
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A New Family |
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Enduring Disharmony |
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Smart Churches, Smart Stepfamilies |
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I Choose To Love You |
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Weathering Storms in a Stepfamily |
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Preserve Your Life -- Hold Your Tongue |
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Creating a Family Identity |
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Tribute to John Visher, MD |
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Play! |
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Sharing Hope & Finding Help |
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How To Find a Competent Christian Stepfamily Therapist |
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"How Can I Light A Ministry Fire Under My Minister?" |
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Starting Your Local Ministry |
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Marriage Smarts |
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Stepfamilies: What About the Couple Relationship? |
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Protecting Your Marriage: Avoiding the Six Predictors of Divorce (Part 1 of 2) |
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Protecting Your Marriage: The Art of the Repair Attempt (Part 2 of 2) |
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Lost & Found: Pain and Grace of Remarriage |
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Adding Significance to Your Marriage |
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When Love Isn't Enough |
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Maximize Your Fun-Factor |
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After The Wedding: The Honeymoon is Over |
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Sex the Second Time Around |
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Your Spouse Grieves Too |
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Managing the Fires of Conflict in Marriage |
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Recipe for a Happy Marriage (Serves Two) |
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Ghost Whispers |
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Shared Ghost Busting: When Your Spouse Has a Ghost |
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Couple Flexibility: A Hidden Key to Marital Intimacy (Part 1) |
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Relational Flexibility (Couple Flexibility Part 2) |
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The Heart of Flexibility (Couple Flexibility Part 3) |
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We Both have Baggage... But it’s Cute and it Matches! |
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Key Qualities for Great Lovemaking* |
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Healthy Boundaries: New Partners & Old Ones |
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Enhancing Your Sexual Intimacy |
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Remarriage Sex: Tips for Not Getting Caught in the Past |
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Healthy Sexpectations |
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Both the Marriage and the Kids |
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A Daily Dose of Marriage Wisdom |
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Building Your Stepfamily Safety Net |
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Smart Stepmoms |
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The Smart Stepmom: Introduction |
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Prayers for Stepmom's |
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I Knew I Was a Stepmom When... |
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Loving the Stepmomster |
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A Struggling Stepmother |
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You're Not My Mom! |
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Jeannie, from Louisiana. Learning From a Good Stepmom |
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Pop-Tart Stepmom |
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Mother’s Day: What’s a Stepmom to Do? |
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Finding Time to Dance & Dine: Time for Romance (Part 1) |
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Finding Time to Dance & Dine (Part 2) |
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Finding Time to Dance & Dine (Part 3) |
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Parenting & Stepparenting |
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When Your Child's Other Home is Leading Them Away From Christ |
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How to Build a Healthy Relationship With Your Stepchild |
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When Your Spouse is Deployed |
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Smart Stepparenting |
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Parenting Alienated Children |
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Accepting My New Spouse as a Parent to My Children |
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Winning Your Stepchild |
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The Wicked Stepmother--and Other Ridiculous Stepmother Myths |
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The Sane Step: Pitfalls to Avoid |
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Choose Simplicity |
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Parenting: Keeping the End in Mind |
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Discpline Strategies: Catch Them Doing Something Right! |
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Parenting: Managing Yourself |
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Stepfathering Adolescents: It Takes Patience, Flexibility, & Humor |
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Discipline Strategies That Work: Talk Less, Act More |
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Stepparent Tool Box |
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Stepparent Inspiration: Two Little Words |
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A Work in Progress |
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Seeing God's Answer |
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Open Hands, Open Heart |
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The Worst Father's Day, The Best Father's Day |
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The Effective Stepfather |
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His Number One Girl |
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Unrealistic Expectation #439: My Life is My Own |
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Stepparents: Coping with the Weekend |
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Erma Bombeck on Stepfathers |
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Paralyzed Parenting & Stepfamilies: When You Don’t Follow Through |
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Learning From a Good Stepmom |
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Parenting After the Death of a Parent |
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Hope for the Struggling Stepparent |
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The Parental Unity Rules |
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Instilling the Attitude of Gratitude |
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Helping Children Cope with Loss: Practice Emotional Coaching |
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Bridge Building Tips for Stepparents |
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Parental Pitfall: Always Playing Defense |
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Stepparenting Smart: Finding Your Place |
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What Do We Do Now? When Stepsiblings Have Sex |
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Understanding & Helping the Children |
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Jealous Children |
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Helping Children Through the Losses of Life |
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Becoming Brothers |
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Life Commentary: Between Two Worlds |
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When Life Hurts: Understanding Children and Loss |
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Caught in the Middle: The Loyalty Tug-of War |
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Ex-Spouses, Co-Parenting, & Multiple Home Realities |
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Common Steps for Co-Parents |
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10 Respectful Strategies to Use with an Unhealthy Co-Parent |
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Dealing with a Difficult Ex-Spouse |
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From Eggshells to Empathy |
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Facing the Authorities: What Happens When an Officer Knocks on Your Door? |
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Every Other Weekend and Noon on Christmas: Adjusting to Part-Time Parenting |
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Seven Beattitudes for Successful Co-Parenting |
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Keeping Your Cool in the Heat of Summer Visitation Planning |
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Honored to Join the Team! |
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Preparing for the Holidays |
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Photos & Memorabilia |
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The "I" Factor |
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Parent Forward |
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A Gracious Thing… in the Sight of God! |
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“Business Meeting Mentality” for the Sake of the Children |
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“CoGrandparenting!” for the Sake of the Children |
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Cheerlead the Other Parent! |
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Tis the Season to Share the Children |
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Parenting After Divorce |
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Cooperative Co-Parenting |
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Step-Money |
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$tepfamily Finance$: Money & $tuff |
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$tepfamily Finance$: Money & $tuff-- Part 2 |
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$tepfamily Finance$: Money & $tuff-- Part 3 |
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$tepfamily Finance$: Money & $tuff-- Part 4 |
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Foolproof Money Mistakes |
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Remarriage Finances Part 1: Why is Money Such a Problem? |
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Remarriage Finances Part 2: Financial Harmony in Remarriage |
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Remarriage Finances Part 3: Emphasizing With One's Life Experiences |
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Remarriage Finances Part 4: Inventorying Our Blessings And Responsibilities |
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Remarriage Finances Part 5: How To Keep The Issue Of Separateness From Pulling Your Remarriage Apart |
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Remarriage Finances Part 6: Getting Started As A Remarriage Couple |
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Remarriage Finances Part 7: Special Financial Issues To Consider Before Remarriage--Estate Planning |
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Remarriage Finances Part 8: Getting Started as a Remarriage Couple |
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Remarriage Finances Part 9: Putting Your Remarriage Financial Plan Into Action |
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Remarital Finances Part 10: Private Trusts and Premarital Agreements In Remarriage |
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Remarital Finances Part 11: Private Trusts And Premarital Agreements In Remarriage--Psychological and Legal Concerns |
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Remarital Finances Part 12: Making Allowances: Modeling Good Financial Conduct For All Children In A Blending Family |
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Money Questions for Dating Couples |
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When and How to use a Shared Covenant Agreement in a Christian Remarriage |
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Later-life Stepfamilies |
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Second-Half Stepfamilies: Adult Stepchildren |
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Adult Stepfamilies |
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Adult Stepfamilies: Bridging Connection Across the Generations |
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Normal |
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Special Topics |
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Stepgrandparenting: Bringing the Outsider In |
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Recommended Resources for Stepfamilies |
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Permission Forms for Stepfamilies |
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Articles for Single-Parents and Dating/Engaged Couples |
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Decisions about Marriage |
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Is Remarriage A Step in the Right Direction? |
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Thinking About Remarriage? |
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Should I Wait to Remarry Until the Kids Are Gone? |
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Divorced? Don't Even Think of Remarrying Until You Read This |
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Unrealistic Expectation #439: My Life is My Own |
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The Elephant in the Bedroom: Cohabitation, Remarriage, and What’s Best for Your Relationship |
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Finding a Mate |
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Finding A Suitable Remarriage Partner (Part 1) -- Seek Godly Counsel |
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Finding A Suitable Remarriage Partner (Part 2) --The Dating Process |
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Finding A Suitable Remarriage Partner (Part 3) --There's No Substitute for Spirituality |
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Finding A Suitable Remarriage Partner (Part 4) --Don't Ignore the Stop Signs! |
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Preparing for Success |
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10 Things to Know Before You Remarry |
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Premarital Counseling for Those Pondering Remarriage |
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Common Steps for Co-Parents |
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Dealing with a Difficult Ex-Spouse |
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Secure Your Mask |
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Covenant Marriage: A Marriage to Last a Lifetime |
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Seven Beattitudes for Successful Co-Parenting |
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Children & Remarriage: The Family Wedding |
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Do-It-Yourself Pre-stepfamily Preparation |
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Wise Dating & Courtship Practices |
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Kids, Getting Married, and Moving |
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Why is my child "hot and cold" toward my girlfriend? |
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How does God feel about sex before marriage? |
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When Ex's Are Too Close |
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The Elephant in the Bedroom: Cohabitation, Remarriage, and What's Best for Your Relationship |
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Future Husband Won't Discipline His Kids |
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Dating Red Flags |
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Money Questions for Dating Couples |
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Mountain Environments of Dating |
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Into the Meadow |
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What Happens in the Meadow |
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Why Responsible, Dependable Dating Single Parents Lose their Mind |
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Myths of the Meadow |
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Double Extreme Environments |
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When a Parent Dates a Non-Parent |
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Ex-Spouses, Co-Parenting, & Multiple Home Realities |
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Truths to Consider |
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Audio Commentaries from Ron Deal |
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Articles for Ministry Leaders |
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Redeeming the Remarried |
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Ministering to Stepfamilies |
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Guiding Stepfamilies Through Wilderness Wanderings |
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We Need Help So Desperately! |
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A Philosophy of Family Life Ministry |
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Starting Your Local Ministry |
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Getting Remarried with Children: Effective Pre-Stepfamily Counseling |
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Pre-Stepcouple Counseling: A Sample Session Format |
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Second Marriages: Helping Couples Embrace a Positive Future |
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The Prophetic Task of the Churches on Behalf of Children of Divorce |
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Ministering to Children of Divorce Through Their Lives |
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The Stepcouple Divorce Rate |
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Recommended Resources for Stepfamily Ministry |
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Divided Loyalties |
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What is it with Men and Commitment, Anyway? |
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Stepfamily Developmental Tasks |
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Making A Difference: Ministering to 21st Century Families |
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Non-traditional Family Continuum of Care: A Ministry Model |
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Acknowledging Stepparent's on Mother's Day and Father's Day? |
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Why the Couple Checkup? |
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Smart Churches, Smart Stepfamilies |
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Jon and Kate Plus 25 |
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Research on Remarriage & Stepfamily Relationships |
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That's Interesting! |
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Top Strengths of Happy Vs. Unhappy Stepcouples |
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Scriptural Issues Related to Divorce and Remarriage |
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There is (Spiritual) Life After Divorce! |
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The Present Indicative in Matthew 19:9 |
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Is it right to divorce if the previous divorce wasn't Biblically acceptable? |
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Three Weddings and a Divorce |
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Online Videos with Dr. David Instone-Brewer |
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Is Remarriage "Covenant" Marriage? |
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Counselor Quick Links |
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Client Quick Links |
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