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Summary: Real Eye Opener
Review: This book really changed my life. I could relate with the birthmother on so many levels and felt emphathy for the stepmother. It really opened my eyes and showed me what I was doing that I never thought was wrong. After reading the book I've learned alot about myself and about my stepwife. Thanks to "Stepwives: Ten Steps to Help Ex-Wives and Step-Mothers End the Struggle and Put the Kids First" I now have a positive relationship with my daughter's stepmother. After reading the book I purchased another copy for my daughter's stepmom and sent it to her. We met for a lunch meeting shortly after we had both read "Stepwives". What an amazing 360 turn our relationship has taken.
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Summary: Real Eye Opener
Review: This book really changed my life. I could relate with the birthmother on so many levels and felt emphathy for the stepmother. It really opened my eyes and showed me what I was doing that I never thought was wrong. After reading the book I've learned alot about myself and about my stepwife. Thanks to "Stepwives: Ten Steps to Help Ex-Wives and Step-Mothers End the Struggle and Put the Kids First" I now have a positive relationship with my daughter's stepmother. After reading the book I purchased another copy for my daughter's stepmom and sent it to her. We met for a lunch meeting shortly after we had both read "Stepwives". What an amazing 360 turn our relationship has taken.
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Summary: Great for a small piece of mind
Review: This book really helped me to visualize how that stubborn ex-wife is or has been viewing the whole situation. I do not get as worked up as I had been doing in the past. I have learned to pick my battles and let the bio-parents deal with eachother as much as possible. I have a little more patience with her and I am thinking about buying her a copy as well. It may not help her, but it sure did me and it is worth a shot.
If you have a "step-wife" and there is a child involved this book may be the way to building small bridges for that child's sake and for that small piece of mind.
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Summary: excellent help
Review: This book was fun and easy to read. The examples given were easy to relate to. I read it cover-to-cover in just a few days, and read about half aloud to my husband while doing it. I found immediate help in these pages. While there's been no change in my "step-wife's" behavior, there has been a real change in my attitude and my behavior and in how I deal with her. I actually bought a copy and gave it to her, though I've never heard a word from her about the gift. It has helped me understand my husband's position, as well. Whether my step-wife reads it or not, I've gotten priceless peace from this book. The kids, the real point of the book, will be the ones to benefit the most.
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Summary: excellent help
Review: This book was fun and easy to read. The examples given were easy to relate to. I read it cover-to-cover in just a few days, and read about half aloud to my husband while doing it. I found immediate help in these pages. While there's been no change in my "step-wife's" behavior, there has been a real change in my attitude and my behavior and in how I deal with her. I actually bought a copy and gave it to her, though I've never heard a word from her about the gift. It has helped me understand my husband's position, as well. Whether my step-wife reads it or not, I've gotten priceless peace from this book. The kids, the real point of the book, will be the ones to benefit the most.
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Summary: Great for a small piece of mind
Review: This makes you take a look into that other woman's life. It forces you to possibly gain a little knowlegde about the ex. It was great to finally feel a little of much DESERVED peace in my life.
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Summary: Great for some peace
Review: This makes you take a look into that other woman's life. It forces you to possibly gain a little knowlegde about the ex. It was great to finally feel a little of much DESERVED peace in my life.
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Summary: Excellent resource for biomoms and stepmoms alike
Review: What a wonderfully insightful book! I had to laugh out loud several times at the stories and emotions I could relate to that I now know were irrational and unacceptable, though not necessarily abnormal! Sure wish I'd had this valuable resource a decade ago when it might have inspired a positive change that would have benefited my family sooner rather than later.I found this book to be an incredible tool in helping me to understand myself and my actions within the biomom role as well as encouraging compassion for those in the role of stepmom. I think both roles are wrought with difficulty, confusion and the tendency to overstep each other's boundaries, but by using the recipe suggested in the book personal growth is inevitable...success and an end to the war between biomom and stepmom is possible.
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