9 blended family questions

For personal / provocative

  1. 1

    What is a hard thing about your children, or mine, that you find awkward to raise?

  2. 2

    Which of these is the trickiest part of our family setup?

    • The ex
    • Different rules in different houses
    • Loyalty
    • Money
    • Time
    • Where we all sit at the table
  3. 3

    What do you want my children to call you, and have you said?

  4. 4

    What do you need from me when your ex is being difficult?

  5. 5

    What do you think the children say about us in the other house?

  6. 6

    When do you feel like an outsider in your own family, and what would help?

  7. 7

    What tradition could be ours, belonging to nobody's old life?

  8. 8

    What have you had to give up to make this family work?

  9. 9

    What do you love about how the children are together?

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