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The Stepmoms' Club: How to Be a Stepmom Without Losing Your Money, Your Mind, and Your Marriage
- A Parenting Self-Help Book to Create Happy Blended Families
- Narrated by: Kim Handysides
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The tips, tricks, and support you need to survive stepmotherhood—the perfect listen for every stepmom around.
You've met the partner of your dreams and have gotten your happily ever after, but now you've taken on a new role: stepmom. And you have no idea what you signed up for. Or maybe you've been a stepmom for a while now, but things are getting you down. Who do you turn to for help? Where is the stepmothering support group that'll give you the advice you need? A book for all the ins and outs of having a blended family? Who actually gets how hard being a stepmom can be?
We do. We are the women who have chosen stepmotherhood and lived to tell the tale. This parenting guide holds our solutions to help you:
- Brave the crazy ex demands
- Overcome the financial hurdles of a blended family
- Be prepared for the legal battles and custody arrangements
- Handle disrespectful children
- Nourish your relationship
- Maneuver the emotional breakdowns of stepmotherhood
- Build your own stepmom's club
- Understand why you need your partner to have your back
Written by stepmoms for stepmoms, these tips, anecdotes, and words of advice will help you find success and support within your new family.
We are the Stepmoms' Club—your club—and we're here to help you.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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Great points.
This book had great points, I wish I would have heard it sooner. I wouldn't mind going back and listening to it again.