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Dealing with Blended Family Problems?

Dealing with Blended Family Problems?

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Blended Family Problems?

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Dealing with Blended Family Problems?

As if relationships aren’t challenging enough! Coping with the energy that it takes to be a parent can add stress to any relationship. Even couples dealing with their “own” children can feel “split” over parenting issues and styles. Then there are couples that come together with children from previous relationships. You’re dealing with 2 sets of children and, most of the time, exes the cause many blended family problems.

Do These Blended Family Problems Sound Familiar?

  • You feel tension and fight over your own or your spouse or partner’s children
  • You have little patience for the way your spouse or partner handles things with their children
  • You don’t have enough time for your relationship due to issues with the kids
  • Your child or your partner’s child has serious health, mental health or behavioral issues
  • You feel like you need to protect your child or children from your spouse or partner
  • Adult children cause a wedge in your relationship
  • Your young children or teens do not accept your spouse or partner and it causes great pain
  • It’s a struggle to connect with and understand each other’s children

So many relationships are formed after a divorce or previous relationship. Many of these involve children of one or both partners. The issues that come up due to blended family problems can add so much stress to a relationship. Many couples need help with how to handle things in a way that is productive and supportive rather than destructive to the relationship.

Getting the Support you Need for Blended Family Problems

It’s normal to expect that everyone may need to adjust to so many different personalities, young and old. If you or your partner struggle with blended family issues, a trained marriage and family therapist can help.

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Coping With an Affair

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Coping with an Affair?

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Coping With an Affair and Infidelity

Are you coping with an affair? Wondering if your relationship can survive the infidelity? If you found out that your spouse or partner ( boyfriend or girlfriend ) cheated on you, it makes sense you’d feel completely devastated. How you found out also complicates things.  And you are no doubt going through a range of feelings from shock, anger, hurt, sadness to confusion. It can also be a huge blow to your self esteem, sometimes making it hard to eat, sleep, or function at work or home. The betrayal of a spouse or partner is so incredibly painful.

Is this you?

  • you’re in shock and you just don’t know what to do or whom to turn to
  • you don’t want to tell family or friends and you feel all alone
  • your feelings of shame are unbearable and you just feel like hiding from people
  • you’re not sure if you can stay in the marriage or relationship
  • you put up a wall and want to distance or lash out (or both)
  • you can’t be around your spouse or partner without feeling an incredible amount of pain
  • you’re getting obsessed with, and focused on, wanting to know all the details, but that only hurts more
  • you keep asking “why?” over and over
  • you feel like somehow it’s your fault

Coping with an affair is so very difficult. Of course you feel angry, of course you feel hurt. So what’s the next step? Can your relationship heal from the damage of an affair?

 

Coping after an affair can be very difficult and take a long time to heal. We hope this information helps you understand the healing process and what steps you can take to recover from infidelity.

Ways to Improve Your Marriage or Relationship

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Ways to Improve Your Marriage

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Ways to Improve Your Marriage or Relationship

 

Three Tips on the Right Way to Fight

Three Things Never to Say in an Argument

Making Relationships Work – Part 1

How to Build Trust

How Can I Improve My Marriage in 30 Seconds?

Four Negative Patterns That Predict Divorce (Part 1)

Four Negative Patterns That Predict Divorce (Part 2)

We how these videos help you find ways to improve your marriage or relationship.

Trying to End An Affair & Therapy?

Trying to End An Affair & Therapy?

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Trying To End An Affair?

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Are You Trying to End an Affair?

Trying to end an affair? Can you stop infidelity from continuing to damage you and your marriage or relationship?

Trying to end an affair that has been causing you to feel depressed in addition to hurting your marriage or relationship? Trying to pick up the pieces and cope emotionally with the loss? Not sure if you can or even want to reconnect with your spouse or partner ( who may or may not know about the infidelity)?

Wondering if you and your relationship can heal? Is it possible to reconnect with your spouse or partner and get more of what you need from marriage or relationship or do you feel like you can’t stay with your spouse any longer?

Certainly day to day stressors, kids and work responsibilities can be anything but romantic. Maybe your marriage became one of focusing on your children, work and chores leaving you drained and exhausted. The routine can make couples slowly drift apart, leaving both partners vulnerable to the attention of another man or woman. Infidelity, which is usually a symptom of a problem in your relationship, may be hard to resist especially if it’s something you have not felt in a long time – or ever.

Trying to End an Affair

When the affair has caused too much pain and guilt,you may feel it’s time to let go. Easier said than done, especially if you are emotionally connected and letting go feels like a very painful loss.  Maybe you’ve already tried a few times to break-off the affair – only to feel drawn back in. Feeling desired and appreciated is hard to resist, especially if it is something that has been lacking (or missing) in your relationship.  On the other hand, coping with letting go and the feelings of grief about giving up the way the other man or woman made you feel can be very painful. To complicate things, you’re usually alone and can’t get the support you need because it may not easy to share the details of infidelity with others.

Trying to End an Affair

Is this you?

  • the affair made you feel things you’ve never felt – in good ways and bad
  • you’ve been dishonest with your spouse or partner and feel very guilty about it
  • you’re ready to commit to giving your marriage or relationship another chance
  • you’re having trouble coping with the pain of trying to let go
  • you’re struggling with the pull of the affair and seeking the good feelings it used to give you ( only to feel more pain they are no longer there)
  • you’re not sure if you want to stay in your marriage and if you can reconnect with your spouse or partner

The next step – Grieving, Healing and Reconnecting With your Spouse (if that’s possible)

A non-judgmental, experienced and understanding therapist can help if you’re trying to end an affair and take the next steps in your life and relationship. Get in touch and let us know if we can help you.

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