Happy Stepfamily Day (Sep 16th) to all the incredible blended families out there that look nothing like the Brady Bunch.

The Brady Bunch laid the groundwork for decades of unrealistic expectations about blended families. The real journey toward blended is so much more intimidating. Which doesn't mean we're failing at becoming a family; it’s just that our preconceptions about what "blended" really means are misinformed.

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You do not need to be perfect to be a good stepparent. You’re certainly not responsible for living up to someone else’s unrealistic stepparenting expectations. Or your own unrealistic expectations!

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If you need help wrapping your brain around the idea of of disengaging in a positive way, I wrote a whole ebook to help with that: ➡️ Not Your Circus, Not Your Monkeys: The Frustrated Stepparent's Guide to Reclaiming Personal Peace. It includes advice and a step-by-step how-to along with my personal stories about disengaging, plus a bunch of different “how I disengaged” examples from other stepparents.

This ebook is included as a perk for our paid subscribers on Substack, but you can also buy it as a standalone right here.

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