Hey, it's Jamie Srimjure. When I became a stepmom, I quickly realize that while

moms are encouraged to keep it real, there's a big double standard when it comes to stepmoms.

So, I decided to start the conversation myself. Thriving as a stepmom doesn't just come from conversations about being a stepmom now.

Here we dive into marriage, relationships, personal growth, and more.

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Inspire you to live a kick-ass life while bringing you along as I create my own.

This is the kick-ass step-mom podcast.

Hello, hello, welcome to the kick-ass stepmom podcast. Hello, hello. Welcome to the kick-ass stepmom podcast.

Let's talk about gaslighting, guys.

Gaslighting. First, I kind of have to tell you a funny story, though. I don't know if it's

funny or not inappropriate. I don't know. Not inappropriate. I don't know. I got to tell you a story.

So about a month ago, Darren and I were, well, we were kind of having a heated conversation, if you will.

And I was trying to tell him how I was feeling about something in our stepfamily life. And he was, well, just not as receptive as I would have liked him to be about my opinion and my experience. And his response to it, like, he was gaslighting me. And I told him that. I'm like, you're gaslighting me right now. And he said to me, he's like, you are just saying gaslighting because it is this new buzzword on Instagram. I've never heard you say that before.

And now you're just saying it because that's what everyone's talking about online. And there's

part of me that was like, okay, fair enough, valid. You may have a point here. And we kind of laughed.

And it did open up a good conversation about how he was actually technically gaslighting me

without really knowing it.

And it did really lighten the mood.

But yeah,

I think it's really interesting when things become like mainstream conversation on Instagram,

you know,

words like gaslighting and boundaries and narcissists and like all those things.

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