How To Be A Parent and A Spouse At The Same Time

Parenting is the most arduous job there is. If your a step parent, especially of kids that came into the relationship at a later age, it is beyond description. Kids are singularly demanding creatures. Most have no understanding of selflessness until they reach adulthood and some never do and become narcissistic adults.

If a marriage is to survive the trials of parenthood, it must be focused on the parents as a couple. If one or the other surrenders to the exclusivity of the children, it will end in a bitter train wreck.

Concentrate on keeping intimacy alive and keep the personal fun in your lives that attracted you to each other before the kids showed up. . Don’t surrender your love to the tantrums of unyielding children.

There is a place for them and a place for the two of you as well.

Define the parameters and continue to take a walk in the moonlight without them.

They won’t be traumatized or suffer horrendous depression from the lack of attention, I promise.