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5 Coping Strategies for Dealing With His Difficult Ex-Wife

Hindsight is 20/20. If there is one thing I wish I could have foreseen when I met my husband, it’s the difficulties I would encounter with his ex-wife. Before she had even met me, it seemed her mind was made up. I was the devil—at least on the days she was willing to acknowledge my existence.

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Second Marriages: 5 Ways to Strengthen Your Relationship

You hear it all the time from stepfamily experts, parenting blogs and marriage therapists: “Put your relationship first.” But how? It’s easy to get caught up in the daily drama that plagues many stepfamilies. Talk between couples can tend to center around problems with the ex, discipline issues involving the children, money woes and legal strife. When these topics become the center of discussion f

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Second Marriages: How Not To Become A Statistic

The odds seem depressing, don’t they? It’s enough to make a couple wonder if they should even bother getting remarried.

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