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Strategies For Making Blended Families Work
Turning two families into one is no easy task. These strategies can help smooth out the rough patches.
Creating a family from scratch is hard enough. When a couple decides to expand their family, there can be plenty of struggles. Who will discipline? Who will stay home when the kid is sick? How many kids will we have? Will we get pregnant or adopt or both?
But the struggles grow exponentially when you bring together two people who already have families of their own. Simple situations become complicated by extra parents, multiple households, regret, resentment, and more.
Before you conclude that your new marriage is doomed to be one of the 67% that fails, try these strategies to blend your two families and find a new happily ever after.
Talk about expectations with your partner
Before you move forward with moving in together or getting married (or ASAP after reading this if you’ve already done that), sit down with your new love and discuss your expectations of the family you’ll be creating together.
