This Week On My Nourished Home

Navigating the Holidays as a Blended Family

Cynthia Rusincovitch — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 06:00:13 +0000

Being a blended family means that holidays can be tricky to navigate. Even when it comes from a loving place, the demands to be present and available to every side of your extended family can be REALLY STRESSFUL… and sometimes just not possible. This is our personal story of how we created our own traditions,...

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Most Second Marriages End in Divorce. Here’s How We Beat the Odds.

Cynthia Rusincovitch — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:54:58 +0000

I was chatting with a dear friend recently who was contemplating a divorce. She and her husband didn’t really fight, they didn’t do much of anything at all. They didn’t talk, they had stopped having sex years before, they didn’t make family decisions together. They were basically roommates. Colleagues at home. They had tried counseling,...

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The Challenges of Being a Stepparent and How to Overcome Them

Cynthia Rusincovitch — Sun, 12 May 2019 10:00:24 +0000

Becoming a stepparent is a gift but is not always easy. It is important to view the challenges of being a stepparent honestly so that you can prepare yourself for the emotional work that it will take to make a happy blended family. With each challenge of being a stepparent, there is a way to...

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Amazing Rewards of Being a Stepparent

Cynthia Rusincovitch — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 10:00:48 +0000

Whenever a stepmom is portrayed in a movie or television show, there is usually a little drama and tension. While being a stepparent is full of challenges, there are far more rewards of being a stepparent than difficulties. People may not always choose to talk about the rewards, but they are there. Sometimes you just have...

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How to Bond with your Stepchild

Cynthia Rusincovitch — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 03:15:02 +0000

Figuring out how to bond with your stepchild can create a great number of challenges for new families. While biological parents literally evolve and grow with their children, stepparents make the choice to become part of a preexisting family, interrupting whatever dynamic was already there. That dynamic may be positive or negative. Healthy or not. But...

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Being Grandparents in a Blended Family

Cynthia Rusincovitch — Sun, 07 May 2017 10:00:42 +0000

When my husband and I got married, we were strongly opposed to the whole idea of “step-” or “half-” anything. In our home, we’re a family – a blended family – and that’s how we like it. In fact, that’s how we insist that it be – especially with our extended families. It’s not always...

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Including Grandparents in a Blended Family

Cynthia Rusincovitch — Tue, 02 May 2017 10:00:16 +0000

Being a grandparent in a blended family isn’t always easy. There’s usually some degree of tension or stress until the relationships between adults get sorted out, but those relationships are always worth working through – especially for the sake of the children. We have shared previously our thought on creating a happy blended family. That’s why...

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Making a Happy Blended Family

Cynthia Rusincovitch — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:52:17 +0000

Blended families come into being for lots of different reasons, but the truth is, when you are building a new family it is often best to leave the conventional thinking behind and focus on the family in front of you.

I am not a therapist or a doctor - just a mom in a blended family that has made it work. In fact, we've been a blended family long enough - and with enough success - that we never thought of ourselves that way until someone asked us to write about our experience.

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