Stepfamily Talk: Dealing with Adult Stepkids

What Do I Do If My Husband Treats Me Like a Kid, His Daughter Like Spouse? Dear Lisa, I recently married a man with three adult children, two daughters 26 and 30, and a son 32. My husband and his youngest daughter are very close. At the age of 12, she was the only...

Help, My Stepson Ignores Me!

What Am I Doing Wrong? How Can I Do This Right? Please help! I recently married a woman with a nine-year-old son. I thought the process of creating a stepfamily would be easy, but my stepson is not very open to me. He doesn’t listen if I ask him to clean up,...