The Grace To Deal with Adult Step Children
Why would mature, independent, married adult children have a negative reaction to their parent’s happy remarriage?†Experts believe of a traditional expectation that the marriage will be long and happy and the newly created blended family will share in the couple’s obvious warmth and contentedness.
In the book, Step Wars: Overcoming the Perils and Making Peace in Adult Stepfamilies, Grace Gabe, M.D. and Jean Lipman-Blumen, Ph.D. explain that much of the pain in adult stepfamilies is due to excessively high expectations on the part of the older couple and with personal anecdotes and professional insight.
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