Tiny Pep Talks for Stepparents

Parental alienation & losing hope.


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If you're dealing with parental alienation and the idea of a light at the end of the tunnel feels like an impossible dream, don't give up! No matter how hard everything is right now, your family will keep evolving and changing. What you're living right now isn't necessarily your forever.

Alienated kids deeply want their targeted parent to see through their act and keep trying, keep right on loving them just the same… even as they insist that’s the opposite of what they want and continue pushing you away.

Just because you can’t see any positive results right now doesn’t mean your efforts to keep connecting with your alienated kid or stepkid are wasted.

Things with my stepkid started out with high conflict and evolved into full-on parental alienation. Our relationship with her was already challenging, but things got SO MUCH WORSE than I ever could've imagined.

But you know what, eventually we came out okay on the other side... even if reaching the other side took a decade. We have our rocky past and there are many wounds that are still healing. But there's genuine love there, too. And love always wins out over hate. xo

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