Remarriage

Stepfamilies often experience extraordinary stress as the holidays--with their pressure cooker of "family" expectations--get underway. So, let go of the Three Big Myths of Stepfamily life.

Shunting the husband/wife relationship to the back burner whenever the stepchildren are around is, it turns out, a recipe for marital and step-family disaster.

It's worth investigating what makes a real Brady family tick because approximately half of all marriages in the US each year are remarriages for one or both partners and 65 percent of them involve children from a previous relationships.

A new day has dawned, and with it another study of marriage misrepresented in the media: as always, implying that getting married results in better outcomes than it actually does.

Divorce can be dignified. Our children deserve the best of us even when the marriage bonds we once thought permanent fray and break.

My father found a very real, deep and uncomplicated love and I am so grateful for that. And the impetus for wanting to write this modern "love story" is a moment that took my breath away a few weeks ago during the holidays.