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Dealing With Those Outside Your Stepfamily (Concluding Part)

RELATIONSHIP 3: OTHER RELATIVES AND FRIENDS

 A key to success: Put your new family first. Tell your relatives and friends about your commitment to your new family. While you cannot expect instant love for new family members from all relatives and friends, you can ask them to be polite and fair. Explain how hurt the children will be if they are passed over when it comes to attention and other kindnesses.

Try to let grandparents from your first marriage have a place in your children’s lives. 

TRY THIS: Identify the friend or relative with whom you have the most difficult relationship, and then discuss with your mate how you can improve that relationship.

Relationships with those outside your household can challenge your stepfamily but “By wisdom and discernment you can do it.

 

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