How can you support your partner through their high conflict custody battle without losing yourself in the process?

If your partner’s not setting great boundaries with their high-conflict ex, here are 4 ways stepparents can protect themselves and their own mental health.

Is it hard to prove parental alienation? Not if you combine the right strategies with the right documentation tools! This guide will help get you started.

So much advice about parental alienation is naive, worthless, or just plain wrong. Don't believe these common myths!

Stay and keep fighting to blend your family, or call it quits and leave? This is the question I asked myself almost daily for a solid decade.

How do you deal with a spying or lying stepkid when their actions cross the line from "kids will be kids" into toxic behavior?

Is it normal to not like your stepkids when they act too much like your partner’s high-conflict co-parent? Short answer: yes. Longer answer: read this blog.

If trying to co-parent with your high-conflict ex doesn’t spark joy for you, maybe it’s time to switch to parallel parenting. Here’s some tips on how to get started.

How should you approach stepparenting when your stepkid comes from childhood abuse or trauma?

Is being a stepparent really worth all the nonsense we have to put up with along the way??

For stepparents who bring their own kids (or ours babies) into a blended family, what’s the best way to protect them from high conflict and other drama?

Becoming a stepmom gave me diagnosable c-PTSD and massive anxiety after years & years of living under constant attack in a high-conflict blended family.

As stepparents, what’s the best way we can support our partners (and protect ourselves) when they’re stuck co-parenting with a narcissistic ex?

Will stepparenting ever feel easier? Will blended family ever feel simple? And — most importantly — WHEN??

Are your blended family Christmas traditions at risk of being ruined by a high conflict ex and crazy custody schedules? These tips can bring some peace of mind at the holidays.

Does taking the high road as a stepparent feel like it gets you absolutely nowhere? Join the club! But taking the high road with the ex can be its own reward, even if you're not getting any points with your stepkid for it.

What do I do when my stepdaughter hates me, even after YEARS together? I keep trying, stepparents. Because this stepmom gig is the long con, and I am determined to rise above.

After years of parental alienation, today my stepdaughter is cheerful and chatty, the total opposite of the sullen, monosyllabic presence I’d come to associate with her visitation time.