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	<description>Susan Wisdom writes about the challenges and joys of Step Parenting.</description>
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		<title>Change The Record, Please</title>
		<link>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2012/01/change-the-record-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Wisdom</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["change the record"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apologies and amends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happy new year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holiday post mortem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to have a happy new year]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stepcoupling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stepfamily challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stepfamily holiday issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wise advise-forgive yourself]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Holiday post mortem: does this sound familiar?: It was a good holiday EXCEPT for that one bad incident. It could have been when you lost your temper with your stepchild. Or when you insulted your partner’s ex. When you drank too much. Or burned the casserole. Or when you yelled at your husband, who was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stepfamilies Can Succeed Even When Stepcouples Don’t</title>
		<link>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/12/stepfamilies-can-succeed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/12/stepfamilies-can-succeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Wisdom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building Relationships with Kids and Stepkids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stepcouple Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Building lasting relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building stepfamily relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children in stepfamilies after divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to continue to see your step kids after divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keeping stepmom relationship even after divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[staying in touch with stepchildren after divorce]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stepcoupling.com/?p=1024</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a senior in high school, my stepmother took me on a 3,000-mile road trip to visit prospective colleges. From our hometown in Louisiana, Kathy and I traveled to Tennessee, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, and home again. We stayed with friends and in inexpensive hotels, listened to books on tape, and ate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Keep Thanksgiving From Being A Total Turkey</title>
		<link>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/11/how-to-keep-thanksgiving-from-being-a-total-turkey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/11/how-to-keep-thanksgiving-from-being-a-total-turkey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Wisdom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stepcouple Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EXPECTATIONS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FORGIVENESS FOR SELF AND OTHERS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HOLIDAY TIPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KNOW YOUR LIMITS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NEED TO STAY CALM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STEPCOUPLE THANKSGIVING]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[STEPFAMILY HOLIDAY CELEBRATIONS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stepcoupling.com/?p=1018</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving is coming, and with it, the anticipation of delicious food, cozy fires, family recipes, and most of all, fond feelings with family and friends. Sounds great, doesn’t it? We all have notions about what Thanksgiving should be like from storybooks, movies, and other people’s sugarcoated anecdotes about their “perfect family.” Those of us in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Chapter For The Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/10/a-new-chapter-for-the-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/10/a-new-chapter-for-the-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Wisdom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developing and Growing your Blended Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Your Stepcouple Relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stepcouple Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taking Care of Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clinical help for stepcouples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new perspective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stepcouple examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stepfamily examples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stepfamily therapist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the voice of experience]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stepcoupling.com/?p=1010</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a companion to my book, this blog is a platform for me to share resources, tools, and inspiration with readers in all stages of stepcoupling. I’ve shared a lot of my personal experiences and lessons I learned as a stepmother. In the next phase of the blog, I’m going to shift perspectives a bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Back And Appreciating The Present &#8211; It Can Happen To You!</title>
		<link>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/09/looking-back-and-appreciating-the-present-it-can-happen-to-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/09/looking-back-and-appreciating-the-present-it-can-happen-to-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Wisdom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building Relationships with Kids and Stepkids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing and Growing your Blended Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beauty of grandchildren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great fun and shared memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[light at the end of the tunnel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memories from past]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stepcoupling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stepfamily as it ages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stepfamily celebrations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stepfamily challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[story telling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer trip with stepfamily]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wish that, back in the chaotic and stressful years when I was newly remarried with 5 children, I could have seen what the future held for our family. The highlight of this summer was a family gathering that I couldn’t have imagined back then. Our family spent a week in central Oregon—without a fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who’s Interests Are You Really Serving? The Kids Or Your Own?</title>
		<link>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/08/who%e2%80%99s-interests-are-you-really-serving-the-kids-or-your-own/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/08/who%e2%80%99s-interests-are-you-really-serving-the-kids-or-your-own/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 15:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Wisdom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building Relationships with Kids and Stepkids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing and Growing your Blended Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taking Care of Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communicating with the other parent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflicts between parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflicts in stepfamilies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dealing with ex spouses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doing what is best for the kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to compromise with your spouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national debt crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[values in families]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stepcoupling.com/?p=927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent crisis over our country’s debt limit and the way our leaders are handling it got me thinking about the way many stepfamilies and ex-spouses relate to each other. Conflict is inevitable in the environment of a remarried family or stepfamily (meaning a divorced couple, their children, and their new partners). There is a great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage Maintenance:  A Husband’s Point Of View</title>
		<link>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/07/marriage-maintenance-a-husband%e2%80%99s-point-of-view/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/07/marriage-maintenance-a-husband%e2%80%99s-point-of-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Wisdom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developing and Growing your Blended Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Your Stepcouple Relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communicating with your wife]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to make your wife happy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[husband's point of view]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maintaining a happy marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage maintenance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stepcoupling.com/?p=825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My restored ’55 Chevy Pickup started making a “tick, tick, tick” noise when I stepped on the gas. It seemed to drive OK, but I was afraid something might be going wrong, so I took it to the mechanic to get checked out. The mechanic told me that I had a gas leak caused by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stepfamily Vacations – Deal Breaker or Connection Maker?</title>
		<link>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/06/stepfamily-vacations-%e2%80%93-deal-breaker-or-connection-maker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/06/stepfamily-vacations-%e2%80%93-deal-breaker-or-connection-maker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Wisdom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building Relationships with Kids and Stepkids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing and Growing your Blended Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stepcouple Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflicts in stepfamily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fun vacations with kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[introducing kids to another family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stepcouple advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[successful summer vacations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vacations for stepfamilies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stepcoupling.com/?p=800</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[She’s been dating this guy. She might even love him…but he has two kids and she has one. She always said she’d NEVER hook up with a man who has kids! Growing up, she had a stepmother she hated. Her dad was always with “her,” and she never got any one-on-one time with her father. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUMMER SANITY IN STEPFAMILIES – IS THERE SUCH A THING?</title>
		<link>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/06/summer-sanity-in-stepfamilies-is-there-such-a-thing-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/06/summer-sanity-in-stepfamilies-is-there-such-a-thing-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Wisdom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Building Relationships with Kids and Stepkids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Developing and Growing your Blended Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stepcouple Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taking Care of Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SUMMER SANITY IN STEPFAMILIES AND STEPCOUPLES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SUMMER SELF CARE FOR STEPMOMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SURVIVING LONG DAYS WITH KIDS AND STEPKIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SURVIVING SUMMER WITH KIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TAKE IT EASY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TAKING A BREAK FROM KIDS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stepcoupling.com/?p=768</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[School’s almost out and summer vacation begins. Vacation for kids is hardly a vacation for the parents and stepparents raising them. The complaints: “THERE’S NOTHING TO DO.” The requests: “Can so and so come over?” The demands: “Take me here, there and everywhere…NOW!” “I need money to go to the mall!” “Everyone else gets to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Future Stepcouples – Three Questions You Must Ask Before You Remarry</title>
		<link>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/05/to-future-stepcouples-three-questions-you-must-ask-before-you-remarry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stepcoupling.com/2011/05/to-future-stepcouples-three-questions-you-must-ask-before-you-remarry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Susan Wisdom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Deciding to Remarry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enhancing Your Stepcouple Relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stepcouple Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[before becoming a stepparent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[how to know if he's right for me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[questions to answer before remarrying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[should I remarry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stepcoupling questions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[will our marriage survive]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stepcoupling.com/?p=765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Love is in the air and many people are planning remarriage ceremonies this summer. When you were young and first looking for love, it probably wasn’t very complicated. You thought you found what you wanted…the rest is history. People who find themselves looking for a partner later in life discover that dating has become much [...]]]></description>
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