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Day'/><category term='great step parents'/><category term='building stefamilies'/><category term='kids that drive you crazy'/><category term='step-Xmas'/><category term='chaos'/><category term='Cinderella'/><category term='step-mum'/><category term='stepkids and holidays'/><category term='expartner'/><category term='money'/><title type='text'>Comments on StepmotherMATTERS: Look Before You Leap</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.stepmothermatters.com/feeds/3089869238233143555/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7586803619454727908/3089869238233143555/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.stepmothermatters.com/2010/02/woman-often-enters-stepfamily.html'/><author><name>Sonja Ridden</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7586803619454727908.post-6546241830603086235</id><published>2010-02-26T11:43:51.795+11:00</published><updated>2010-02-26T11:43:51.795+11:00</updated><title type='text'>Man I wish I had answered those questions before s...</title><content type='html'>Man I wish I had answered those questions before selling my house, moving my daughter in with this new &amp;quot;family&amp;quot; and brought our two lives together... I can answer negatively to many questions, if not all of them....</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7586803619454727908/3089869238233143555/comments/default/6546241830603086235'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7586803619454727908/3089869238233143555/comments/default/6546241830603086235'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.stepmothermatters.com/2010/02/woman-often-enters-stepfamily.html?showComment=1267145031795#c6546241830603086235' title=''/><author><name>Alexandra</name><uri>http://www.afascinatinglife.com</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.stepmothermatters.com/2010/02/woman-often-enters-stepfamily.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7586803619454727908.post-3089869238233143555' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7586803619454727908/posts/default/3089869238233143555' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-1840648706'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7586803619454727908.post-4242235003678613153</id><published>2010-02-23T14:27:09.093+11:00</published><updated>2010-02-23T14:27:09.093+11:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you for your post. You offer very sensible q...</title><content type='html'>Thank you for your post. You offer very sensible questions for prospective stepmoms. Blending families is hard and it would take a lot of patience to make things work favorably to everybody. But it does start simply with being able to work out on some of the gray areas in your life as a couple.</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7586803619454727908/3089869238233143555/comments/default/4242235003678613153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7586803619454727908/3089869238233143555/comments/default/4242235003678613153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.stepmothermatters.com/2010/02/woman-often-enters-stepfamily.html?showComment=1266895629093#c4242235003678613153' title=''/><author><name>Blending Families</name><uri>http://www.blending-families.com</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.stepmothermatters.com/2010/02/woman-often-enters-stepfamily.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7586803619454727908.post-3089869238233143555' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7586803619454727908/posts/default/3089869238233143555' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-255605521'/></entry></feed>
