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  • Blended Families Expert - Dan Blended Families Expert - Dan Snell

    • From: BlendedFamilies
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      Dan and Rebecca Snell are Co-Founders of The Bonded Family.  The are consider stepfamily experts.  They host the 'first of it's kind' radio program specifically and only dealing with the unique dynamics that stepfamilies face.

      The Bonded Family exists as a faith-based resource sharing Encouragement, Hope, Practical Tips and Biblical Inspiration to the 20+ million stepfamily households in America.  They help the local church reach out to families in the community that may not have available assistance to be successful.

      They serve churches, communities and organizations via Conferences, Content, Communication and Coaching.

      GOD CAN...take a stepfamily...from Broken to Blended to Bonded.

      Bond to a loving God and He will bond to your Family and Bond your Family.

      Visit their website at:  http://www.thebondedfamily.com

    • 5 days ago
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  • Zig Ziglar & Julie Ziglar spen Zig Ziglar & Julie Ziglar spend time with Blended Family Experts Dan & Rebecca Snell

    • From: BlendedFamilies
    • Description:

      Dan and Rebecca Snell are Co-Founders of The Bonded Family.  The are consider stepfamily experts.  They host the 'first of it's kind' radio program specifically and only dealing with the unique dynamics that stepfamilies face.

      The Bonded Family exists as a faith-based resource sharing Encouragement, Hope, Practical Tips and Biblical Inspiration to the 20+ million stepfamily households in America.  They help the local church reach out to families in the community that may not have available assistance to be successful.

      They serve churches, communities and organizations via Conferences, Content, Communication and Coaching.

      GOD CAN...take a stepfamily...from Broken to Blended to Bonded.

      Bond to a loving God and He will bond to your Family and Bond your Family.

      Visit their website at:  http://www.thebondedfamily.com

    • 5 days ago
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  • Blended Families Experts 1 Blended Families Experts 1

    • From: BlendedFamilies
    • Description:

      Dan and Rebecca Snell are Co-Founders of The Bonded Family.  The are consider stepfamily experts.  They host the 'first of it's kind' radio program specifically and only dealing with the unique dynamics that stepfamilies face.

      The Bonded Family exists as a faith-based resource sharing Encouragement, Hope, Practical Tips and Biblical Inspiration to the 20+ million stepfamily households in America.  They help the local church reach out to families in the community that may not have available assistance to be successful.

      They serve churches, communities and organizations via Conferences, Content, Communication and Coaching.

      GOD CAN...take a stepfamily...from Broken to Blended to Bonded.

      Bond to a loving God and He will bond to your Family and Bond your Family.

      Visit their website at:  http://www.thebondedfamily.com

    • 5 days ago
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  • Blended Family Wedding Day Blended Family Wedding Day

    • From: BlendedFamilies
    • Description:

      Dan and Rebecca Snell are Co-Founders of The Bonded Family.  The are consider stepfamily experts.  They host the 'first of it's kind' radio program specifically and only dealing with the unique dynamics that stepfamilies face.

      The Bonded Family exists as a faith-based resource sharing Encouragement, Hope, Practical Tips and Biblical Inspiration to the 20+ million stepfamily households in America.  They help the local church reach out to families in the community that may not have available assistance to be successful.

      They serve churches, communities and organizations via Conferences, Content, Communication and Coaching.

      GOD CAN...take a stepfamily...from Broken to Blended to Bonded.

      Bond to a loving God and He will bond to your Family and Bond your Family.

      Visit their website at:  http://www.thebondedfamily.com

    • 5 days ago
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  • BlendedFamilies

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  • Re: I love him, but I ruin eve Re: I love him, but I ruin everything

    • From: Kop5445
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      it seems that he really does love you. he stands by you even when you are feeling down. but you need to see that even though it may seem that "you" are ruining everything...i highly doubt that is the case. i have been in a relationship for a while, and my significant other has a very similar problem. she tries to over think everything and that makes her freak out about things that are out of her control. i tell her that she needs to not worry about that stuff because then when i am in the same room as he

    • 1 week ago
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  • Communication Communication

    • From: lbrose
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          Well, maybe, you could try communicating in a more solid way. Try not to tell him what you wish you relationship were like, because this can make anyone feel

    • 1 month ago
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  • Cadusys

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    • Since: 2 months ago

  • Communication May be the Key Communication May be the Key

  • My thoughts... My thoughts...

    • From: dhub
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      The first question that comes to mind when I see these posts, is how much of these thoughts have you discussed with your partner? Quite often, what is going through your mind is not being made explicit so even reading something you’ve written out, may help you clarify to her your feelings.

      Secondly, if she has already heard all of this, I would suggest working on the trust area. If you still don’t trust her, than tell her this and tell her why.

    • 3 months ago
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  • Lying Husband Lying Husband

    • From: depressed
    • Description:

      Hello Everyone.  I desperately need some advice.  I was married to a wonderful man 8 months ago.  W ehad been together 9 years prior to getting married.  He had always been reluctant about marriage whereas i was always the one pushing it.  In the end I basically gave him an ultimatum and he finally asked me to marry him.  We have had an amazing decade together.  We have always spent most of our time together when we are not working etc...our families are wonderful and we see them once a week since everyone lives close.Our wedding day was amazing and so happy.  For me it was finally my dream come true.  Then everything came crashing down OUT OF NOWHERE.  I COULD NEVER EXPECT WHAT has happened since our wedding day and noone who knows us would ever believe it.  On our honeymoon, I caught him texting someone though he could never show me the phone and denied it being anything.  I knew then that something was up so i started watching him closely when we returned from our honeymoon and I noticed on th ephone bill i was able to eventually access, that he was calling this woman every day and texting her all day long.  I came to find  out that he had been talking to this other woman for the entre length of our engagement.  He did not stop once we were married and continued to do so even after i found the phone bills.   When i confronted him about it he promised me that he would stop talking to her and that it was nothing.  I let it go and didnt make much of a stink about it, fast forward two months later i find a cellphone in his trunk that i was not aware he had with texts to this other woman saying things like i love you so much it hurts.  I cant wait to continue....I confront him about this and he tells me that hes sorry, that he doesnt want to be with her but that we have communication problems and he doesnt feel like he can talk to me because every time he tries to, i turn it around and tell him hes wrong and im not understanding and i dont accept his viewpoint.  Understood.... I Move on hurt and questioning every day whether he is being honest with me.  at this point my trust is shattered beyond belief and i find that while i want to trust him, my insecutiries show and i am really on top of him almost every day.  8 months later my meltdowns are down to once a week.

      During these 8 months I find clues to tell me that he may still talking be talking to her.  So i tell myself ill only do this once but i have to know.  i put a recording device in his car, and i get a conversation of him and her talking while hes driving home one night..  In the tape he says " its easy for me, we dont have a hosue we dont have children we dont have money, i can just abandon her"  I confronted him with this and he went to leave but we were both so upset and we started talking about how this could happen to us.  we are picture perfect to everyone.  I thought we were happy....he wasnt/ He told me that for the last eight months, he tried to stop talking to this woman, but when i melted down every week it made him go back to her.  He has never once admitted to an affair, saying that they are just friends and she is someone he can talk to.  He told me that he feels like an empty shell of a person because I have made him stop wanting to have any friends, etc.  He does not have any friends, all his friends are family, so he is always home with me and like I said before, we spend most of our time together.  He comes home after work, has never been home late while this has been going on.  I think that this was more of an emotional affair and I do not believe it was a sexual one, thought with all the lies lately, not sure what i can believe.  I am a really sweet loving person and i believe that he is manipulating me and maybe not as good of a person as i thought.  I do know him and he really is a good person.  I dont know how he got messed up in all of this.  He tells me now that he wants to work it out.  That i just need to be more loving and stop being on top of him so much as I have in the last 8 months.  It was very hard for me to deal with when I ffirst found out that my husband, and the man that i love more than anything in this world, would do this to me during what was to be the best time of our life.  So every day was extremely painful for me for those 8 months and i would preach to him daily about what he needed to do.  He found this to be depleting...which I can understand so i feel like I may have contributed to him going back to this other woman because she was someone he could talk to.  I asked him so many times, are you still talking to her? do u want to?  He would always reply no, that this isnt what we needed, what we needed was love.....sigh...After all this he tells me he does not want her. By the way she is married with two kids. He says he wants me.  he wants us to be happy but that we have to try something different.  i cant come at him anymore and keep him under this microscope and keep questioning him.  He wants me to feel secure and be loving and understanding, be cool and he says this will make everything better.  If i can do that that he can stop talking to the other woman.  I would say things like...are u still talking to this other woman.  If you are, you mind as well stab me in the heart instead of my back? which he basically says insinuated that he was a monster that couldnt be trusted and it didnt make him want to be trustworthy.  He wants me to be cool and say..i know somethings up, u have to fix this !  and leave it at that. trust that he will take of it and let him be a man.  We left off that we both knew what we needed to do inorder to make this marriage survive this..... and that we were going to try. He is depressed and i need to get him happy again.  I have to put aside myself because he seems really lost right now and i just want to help him back to me.  I certainly have not been perfect over th elast couple of years, with my ultimatums and my microscope.  I know he loves me otherwise he wouldnt have married me...And he wouldnt still be here trying to make it work.  I love him despite all this and i just want us to be happy.  I wan to reinvent us and bring back the love.  I know its gonna be hard but i have to try and i think if he sees that i am willing to work so hard for the both of us that he may start feeling hopeful and actually give me what i want which is him.  Please let me know if you think I am doing the right thing.  I really appreciate you taking the time and I hope that if you are going through anything like this that you will be able to be happy again real soon and get whatever it is you want as i so desperately do....

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    • 3 months ago
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  • Gave away the milk before sell Gave away the milk before selling the cow...or something like that!

    • From: thefirstnoel
    • Description:

      Hello everyone. I really enjoy this web-site and the wonderful and helpful advice it provides. Here is my issue:

      I have been with "Scott" for over six years now, and I am very much in love! He and I have gone through many obstacles, and we have lived togther for 5 years. He owns his own business and I work at a law firm. I bought a house over two years ago, so we could enjoy a home that was ours and not a rented apartment. He's very kind and wonderful. He was not brought up in the same kind of home

    • 3 months ago
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  • Re: Who's Right & Who's Wrong? Re: Who's Right & Who's Wrong?

    • From: lovinmybabynomatterwhat
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      you want to know what I learned during these last few days that i have been having not problems but silence in my marriage? Inever took the time to walk a day in my husbands shoes. sometimes its the little things they do to show their love and affection that we overlook. and boy have I overlooked alot. Honestly what I would do, is when my husband is in a bad mood, i give him his space, give him affection freely but not push it on him and stay in my happy place, because you being in a bad mood while he is

    • 3 months ago
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    • Forum: Married...

  • wait. wait.

    • From: justinloveseryn
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      It sounds as if you resent having to support him, which is a bad thing. Resent is detrimental to any relationship, more so if he doesnt know you feel that way. He is dependent upon you, which can be positive or negative depending on how you view it. If you were not together he would be forced to get a job instead he is leaning on you and you are allowing him to do so. If you dont want him to, dont let him. Its your choice. As for the fact that he doesnt have a job yet, its been TWO MONTHS! You need patie

    • 3 months ago
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  • I'd say so. I'd say so.

    • From: Former member
    • Description:

      Wow, yes I would say they are too involved in your relationship. It sounds like you're in a relationship with not only your boyfriend but also all of his friends. The best way to deal with this is to express this directly to him, because he might not even know it bothers you. 

       I definitely have had problems with my boyfriend's friends and when it came down to it, he decided that I was more important to him than their opinions of our relationship or of me. Once he stated that to his frien

    • 4 months ago
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  • Quit Grilling Me! Quit Grilling Me!

    • From: LTNANEZ
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      Hello all I am new to this community. I joined so I can get advice from everyone on some new ways to good effective relationship communication. Especially on the topic of what some consider "Grilling" or excessive questionong.

      Less than 6 months ago, while serving overseas in Baghdad, IRAQ, I got re acquainted with an old HS Classmate via a popular social networking site. Our communication increased and we began a long distant relationship within the first 2 months or getting re acquainted.

      In our emails back and fourth to eachother, we asked many questions of one another to try and figure out if the other person is what we really wanted during those first two months. Even the three lil words, "I Love You" took over a month to get out.

      When my depolyment was over she asked me to move in with her. I did, making the move some 600 miles. During the first month everything was wonderful. Intimacy, communication, time spent with one another and finances.

      I am currently a stay at home father, watching her son and my daughter. She goes to work and I stay at home contributing by keeping the house clean, caring for the kids and porviding financially with money saved while in Iraq and owned stocks. And being couped up in this house all day my mind begins to wander. I am curious about how my Fiance's day is going. She is an admin assistant who is frustrated and bored with her job. She calls when she can during her 30 min lunch break and then the problems arise........

      Lately she has been feeling like I am "Grilling" her with the questions that I ask.

      For example, today at lunch.. I heard her truck start. So obviously she was going somewhere with her limited time.

      So I asked..."Where are you headed to?"  She Replied with "To the Bank".

      Having checked both our checking accounts just an hour earlier and knowing she was low on funds I asked "From your savings".  She replied "Yes"  Then to change subject I asked..."Have you eaten Lunch?" She replied with "No not yet." So I asked "are you going to eat out today?" She said  "No I will eat back at the office".

      So wondering why she took out the little of funds she did have and needing something from the store to complete dinner I asked..."Are you going to the store?" in hopes she would say yes so I could ask her to bring home what I needed she replies with a simple "Yes".  She did not say which one so I asked her.."Which Store?"

      Then she blew up and told me to stop "Grilling" her. and to make a long story short, our lunchtime conversation became a lunch time arguement over what she thinks is  "Grilling" and what I consider curious becasue I was needing something from the store and knowing that she had very little money in her account.

      I tried to explain to her that if the conversation would of been between her and a school teacher trying to get info on how her child was doing in school and the teacher gave a simple answer as "Good"...that she would have more questions for the teacher.. She would try to ask different questions of the teacher to get answers on how her child was doing in school.

      When someone aSks me a question, I try to answer it using as many of the 5 W's as I can. So that I answer the persons question completely.. and if they happen to ask another question.. then fine..I will answer the next question just the same.

      In my mind, I was trying to prevent her from overdrawing her account and possibly having her bring home the missing dinner ingredient so that I would not have to take the two young children out in the cold to the store.

      Ladies... would you consider this "Grilling"?  If so.. How may I better communicate with my future spouse.

      In my mind I was only trying to protect her, have dinner ready, curious about her day all while trying to converse during her lunch break.

      I have no reason to suspect that she is doing something she is not suppose to be doing...I am just curious about her day...

      Is it fair to accuse me of "Grilling"?

      I will take all replies as constructive criticism. And I want to thank you for reading and submitting any response. Thank You.

      -Chris

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    • 4 months ago
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  • Hope I make sense... Hope I make sense...

    • From: OrphenZidane
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      Sounds to me like she is unhappy with the connection level, really. I completely understand, because I was in this exact same situation with my significant other as well. I felt as though we didn't communicate very well to each other, and he didn't reach me on a level I felt was needed- and honestly, it was very unrealistic...mainly due to the fact that I had hopes a bit too high and far-fetched for him to actually rise to achieve.

      She feels as though she "settled", I can tell you right now-

    • 4 months ago
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  • Commuication Commuication

    • From: SLB
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      Confused,

      My first question would be to ask if you have talked to your husband about what you are feeling.  There is nothing better than good communication between a husband and wife.  Good communication can solve so many problems and avoid that many more.  I must admit that when I first got married my wife was feeling the same way and I wasn't even aware of it until she started talking to me about it.  At first I was a little defensive and didn't want to admit that I was hurtin

    • 5 months ago
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  • Glenn and Evelyn Gibson's True Glenn and Evelyn Gibson's True Love Story

    • From: TwoOfUsAdmin
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      What sustains a relationship over 17 years?

      For Glenn and Evelyn Gibson, the key has been coffee and conversation.

      Their relationship steeped for six long months, spending hours in coffee shops getting to know each other. “After all that coffee, we were best friends,” Evelyn said. “It was easy to fall in love with him because he became my friend first.”

      The communication skills mastered during those talks became essential when it came to blending their two families. Glenn entered the relationship with four grown children and Evelyn brought with her three younger daughters.

      It wasn’t always easy. Although Evelyn’s daughters welcomed Glenn into their home, they didn’t initially welcome his new role in their lives.

      Evelyn established her position early on insisting, “No, he is not your biological father. No, you don’t necessarily have to love him, but you must respect him because he is part of our family as the head of the household.” And out of that respect, the girls have learned to truly love him as a father.

      The girls also have witnessed a ritual that affirms Glenn’s love for their mother—after all these years, Glenn and Evelyn still spend the first 45 minutes of their day together, chatting and drinking coffee.

      “Although my stepfather has long since retired,” said Evelyn’s daughter Rhameka, “he still wakes up with my mother every day before she leaves for work to share a pot of coffee, discuss current events, and to ensure that she is prepared for work.”

      Along with their morning coffee, Glenn and Evelyn mark each day with lots of hugs and kisses. “We had seen incidences where people left going to work, never returned home, and didn’t get a kiss before they left,” Glenn said “So we always kiss every time we meet or leave each other.”

      So what makes a happy marriage? For Glenn and Evelyn, it has been common interests, a common faith and an uncommon commitment to really communicate.

      “Nobody can read your mind,” Glenn said, “You might think they can, but they can’t. So say what you want and see if you get it. Then if you don’t, go on to something else.”

      Glenn and Evelyn know life is too short to hold on to grudges. Time, they know, is better spent sipping a warm cup of coffee, conversing with your best friend.

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