It’s vitally important that you and your husband learn to communicate and get your emotions out on the table. A stepfamily in the beginning is a fragile thing, and you want to do everything you can to strengthen those bonds.
As I’ve said all along, you’ve got to have a solid relationship with your spouse. Learning how to talk to each other creates a healthy foundation that you can use to approach all of the stressors in your lives from a position of power.
In a stepfamily, when you work on communicating your needs and desires to each other, remember to think about how what you’re asking for will affect your husband. Think about what he must give up to respond to your request.
“When you ask your husband to make a sacrifice so he’ll feel like he’s not being a good dad, try to have that at the back of your mind,” Coleman says. “I stress that, because women often mistake men’s more stoic presentation around their feelings for a greater degree of resolution than they feel.
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