StepMom Magazine is a monthly online publication for any woman who dates, lives with or is married to someone with kids.
Each issue is a downloadable, printer-friendly PDF you can enjoy reading anytime, anywhere. Text-only versions for iBooks, Android and Kindle are included with all issues dated 2019 and beyond.
When you subscribe, you’ll also become a member of our online support group. Here, you can talk privately with other stepmoms about the issues that concern you most.
If you’ve ever heard, “You knew he had kids!” or wondered why things are harder than you thought they’d be, StepMom Magazine is for you!
THE OCTOBER 2019 ISSUE | TABLE OF CONTENTS
FEATURES
#ForcedAffection and Your Stepkids
What to Do When Your Partner Wants You to Hug ‘Em
BY MARY T. KELLY, MA
Mothers, Daughters & Stepmoms
What Makes Our Relationships With Other Women So … Complicated?
BY CLAUDETTE CHENEVERT
Loving Them Like Your Own
4 Things for Stepmoms to Consider
BY KELLY PALMQUIST, MSW
Stepmother Taboos
Things You Can’t Say or Do—in Mixed Company
BY KYLIE MCGREGOR
DEPARTMENTS
EXPERT ADVICE
Got Guilt?
Your Conscience Is Trying to Tell You Something
BY TRACI MORENO, PsyD
STEPMOM MEMOIRS
His & Hers Duplex
The Side-by-Side Stepfamily
BY MARCI MCPHEE
THRIVING STEPMOMS
Your Wise Self
The Answers You Seek Are Within
BY MEG BURTON TUDMAN
STEPMOM MEMOIRS
A Tale of Two Stepmothers
Fortune, Fate and Unrequited Stepfamily Ties
BY SANDI BEN-DOV, MEd
LIFE AFTER DIVORCE
Stepfamilies & Favoritism
Life Truly Isn’t Fair
BY KRISTA GIOVARA
IN EVERY ISSUE
ON THE COVER
Amanda Robertson
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
What I Want You to Know
FROM THE ARCHIVES
This Time Last Year
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