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Life as a Stepmother is No Fairytale—I Feel Sorry for My Wife

By Tim Lott — 2015

The children are angry and vulnerable, the father sides with them out of guilt, and stepmothers are just expected to suck it all up

Read on www.theguardian.com

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Chicken Soup for the Mother & Daughter Soul: Stories to Warm the Heart and Honor the Relationship

The relationship between a mother and daughter is one of the most profound bonds in life. A mother feels her daughter's first kick during pregnancy, labors to bring her daughter into the world and watches as she takes her first breath of life.

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Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Dorothy Firman
2025
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Daughters and Mothers: Making it Work

The mother/daughter relationship is one of the most intense relationships a woman will ever experience-it is strong and primary. This first and essential relationship has a powerful, though often subtle, effect on an adult woman's interactions with her mate, children, friends-and herself.

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Julie Firman, Dorothy Firman
2003
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Mother Nurture: A Mother’s Guide to Health in Body, Mind, and Intimate Relationships

A multidisciplinary approach to health to mother coping with the challenges of raising young children in the twenty-first century presents hundreds of practical ideas on ways to help mothers enhance their moods, promote energy and health, and build intimacy with partners, discussing diet, stress...

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Rick Hanson, Jan Hanson, Ricki Pollycove
2002
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The Happiest Mommy You Know: Why Putting Your Kids First Is the Last Thing You Should Do

Award-winning reporter Genevieve Shaw Brown was hell-bent on raising her kids to like vegetables and eat more than chicken nuggets for dinner. She woke up at five a.m.

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Genevieve Shaw Brown
2017
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#UnmotheringTheWoman - Regretting Motherhood - Jeri

This week on UnMothering the Woman, we are exploring the concept of regretting motherhood. In this episode, we speak to a woman whose family planning method failed (twice) and what that meant for her and her life moving forward, including her feelings and reflections on the trajectory her life took.

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2020
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How Do You Create a Successful Blended Family? | Listen to Black Women

This week we’re asking the question, how do you create a successful blended family.

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2018
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The Costs of Idealizing Motherhood | Julie de Azevedo-Hanks | TEDxOgden

In her 25 years as a therapist, Hanks has long noticed that most women express feelings of guilt, shame, conflict and inadequacy when talking about motherhood.

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2019
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Un-Settling: How to Help Your Kids by Making and Modeling an Amazing Life After Divorce

Un-Settling speaks to mothers and their children who have settled enough already―to mothers whose marriage they’d settled for no longer worked, who took a big leap and resolved to build something better for their kids.

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Maggie McReynolds
2018
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The Motherhood Complex: The Story of Our Changing Selves

Enriched with discoveries from biology, psychology and social science, The Motherhood Complex is a journey to the heart of what it means to become a mother.

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Melissa Hogenboom
2021
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Emotional Labor: How to Stop Doing All the Work

In the episode, I share an article I read recently with some simple strategies a woman used that really made a difference in making her “invisible” emotional labor visible to her husband.

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Terri Cole
2019
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