S5E6: How to Step-Mom

Love Letters

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When a step-parent enters the picture, it can be an especially fraught new beginning -- for everyone involved. Stacie discovered this after she and Tim decided to make a life together. Tim came with two kids; Stacie had none. Nor did she have any idea -- at first, anyway -- what it meant to be a step-mom. Plus, Meredith and her sister, Brette, sing Mary Poppins. Sort of. Email us at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Meredith.
0:01.8	Listeners of Love Letters know that mental health is something I take very seriously, which
0:06.0	is why I want to tell you about season three of the podcast Turning Points, Navigating
0:10.2	Mental Health.
0:11.8	Each episode gets real about the ups and downs of Navigating Mental Health and the Turning
0:16.2	Points that can spark lifelong changes.
0:19.3	Post Francis Lease, a clinical therapist, talks with psychologists, dualists, writers
0:24.5	and experts about breakdowns, breakthroughs, and everything in between.
0:29.6	Turning Points, a podcast from Point 32 Health in partnership with Boston Globe Media.
0:34.7	Find Turning Points wherever you get your podcasts.
0:38.4	Am I allowed you slightly inappropriate language?
0:43.9	No.
0:44.9	Okay.
0:45.9	All right.
0:46.9	Okay.
0:47.9	You can say shit and damn and fuck.
0:51.6	Can I say bitch?
0:53.1	Because the first thing that comes to mind is, bitch, you can't ground me.
0:58.1	From the Boston Globe and PRX, this is Love Letters.
1:05.2	I'm Meredith Goldstein.
1:24.9	My sister Brett and I have lots of experience with step parents and almost step parents.
1:30.8	Our relationships with these people haven't always gone well.
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