111: Blended Couple Didn't Think Blending Would Be This Hard

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><copy & paste below into the website for show notes></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode of the Nacho Kids Podcast, Lori, co-founder of Nacho Kids, interviews blended couple, Jessica and Mark!  They have been blending for 4-½ years. Mark has three daughters ages 20, 18, and 16, and together they have a two-year-old son. Jessica was an “ours” child in her blend and thought that experience would make their blend a little “easier”. That wasn’t the case. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we discuss:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Adding an “ours” kid to the blend</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Lowering expectations</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The grieving process of blending</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Co-parenting with the ex</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The stepparent telling the bio parent how to parent</span></li> </ul>