Category Archives: The Ex
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Filed under Communication, Divorce, Lovely Man, Me, Random, Remarriage, Stepfamily Life, The Ex, What I Wish I'd Known
Recognising (the dynamics of) high conflict divorce
I recently found a fascinating article by Dr Kathy J. Marshack about high-conflict divorce. Although she primarily talks about high conflict divorce with a narcissist, I think her ideas are broadly applicable to other high-conflict personality types. For me, what … Continue reading
Filed under Communication, Divorce, Linkety-Link, Remarriage, Resources, Stepfamily Life, The Ex
Warning signs for stepmothers
Ask a stepmother what advice she’d give to another woman deciding whether to get involved with a man with kids, and the cliché is that she’ll screech: Run! Run like the wind! I’ve been tempted to trot this one out … Continue reading
Filed under Counselling, Linkety-Link, Stepfamily Life, The Ex, What I Wish I'd Known
Just asking
Does anyone else find it really, really difficult when your partner wants you to look through photos of his kids as babies that were taken when his first family was intact? Mixed in are inevitably photos of the kids’ mum, … Continue reading
Filed under Communication, Family, Kids, Lovely Man, Random, Stepfamily Life, The Ex
Cupcakery
On Thursday night I made four dozen cupcakes. Boy C wanted to take treats to school to share with his whole class; while I didn’t have the energy to churn out enough cupcakes from our somewhat makeshift kitchen in the … Continue reading
Filed under Family, Food, Stepfamily Life, The Ex
Storm’s coming
You know how maestro piano players are sometimes described as playing a piece of music “stormily”? The Lovely Man is in the study at the moment, and I can tell he is writing his email response to the Boys’ Mum’s … Continue reading
Filed under Communication, Lovely Man, Stepfamily Life, The Ex
Lovely to meet you…
And if you believe that you’d swallow anything. So, I met the Boys’ Mum yesterday. It was fine, in a way. Uncomfortable? You bet. I had to grip my cup tightly to stop my hands from shaking. She was obviously … Continue reading
Filed under Communication, Lovely Man, Me, Stepfamily Life, The Ex
Yet another search string
A new and exciting search string showed up in my blog stats today: ex-wife refuses “meet my new partner” I’m guessing they found me via my series on The Mother Question. Ironic, really, that this should show up today of … Continue reading
Filed under Communication, Stepfamily Life, The Ex, Writing
The Onslaught
By last October, Christmas 2009 was shaping up to be fairly horrific. In the end, it was and it wasn’t, I suppose. Like most adventures in stepfamily life, there were good as well as bad bits; in fact the good … Continue reading
Filed under Christmas, Communication, Counselling, Kids, Lovely Man, Me, Stepfamily Life, The Ex
