Step Wars Book Review - Parts 1 & 2

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Step Wars is an excellent and practical guide to help avoid pitfalls, to repair past damage, to maintain healthy relationships and to help everyone enjoy an adult step family experience. Blended-Families.com Coach Sheena Berg provides an objective review of the book for readers to appreciate it more.


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The Tact and Tacking Skills in Resolving Blended Family Conflicts

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Adult stepfamilies face five common anger issues. Issues that surprisingly, both the parental couple and adult children share. Although these basic fears and concerns are important factors in stepparent relationships, there are opposing views about who causes the problems. Grace Gabe, M.D. and Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ph.D., authors of the groundbreaking book, Step Wars, described these anger issues as the Five Furies.

This is a must read for anyone in an adult stepfamily, whether biological parent, stepparent or adult child. It is an excellent and practical guide to help avoid pitfalls, to repair past damage, to maintain healthy relationships and to help everyone enjoy an adult step family experience.

This topic is expounded more in the book, Step Wars, by Grace Gabe, M.D. and Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ph.D. There’s no substitute for reading the book, but a close second is to join us on an Ask the Experts interview with Grace Gabe and Jean Lipman-Blumen on September 30, 9 pm EST. If you can’t be on the call, submit your very own question to the authors here.

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The Secrets of Happily Married Men

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In today's installment of the Blended Family News podcast, we discuss a book that we are certain can help your families blended successfully.

Among other things, Dr. Scott Haltzman, in his book The Secrets of Happily Married Men, discusses the varied reasons behind relationship dissatisfaction and breakdown, and focuses in on how men are portrayed and described as relationships buffoons who couldn't get it right to save their lives. This stereotype does nothing to promote good relationships.

The book celebrates the equality of the sexes and acknowledges their innate strengths and skills. However, the distinguishing message is that there are real and undeniable biological and emotional differences between men and women that need to be understood and used to benefit the relationship, not to create more conflict.

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