by Shadra Bruce | Adult Children, Keeping Marriage Strong, Love, On Motherhood, Parenting
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce I have been so blessed to have a full house from the time I met Dave. He already had three children, and they quickly became my own as our relationship developed. Once we were married, we added two more, with a total of five children...
by Shadra Bruce | Stepparenting
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce My husband and I met online. That’s not unusual these days, but in 1997, it was a rarer occurrence. We met in an AOL chat room – a place I was spending more and more time as my marriage fell apart. Dave was a divorced dad with full...
by Shadra Bruce | Keeping Marriage Strong
Getting Real with Shadra Bruce 15 Rules for a Happy Marriage Love the person for who they are, not who you think you can get them to be Say I love you every day Never go to bed mad Cuddle every night before you go to sleep Cuddle every morning when you wake up...
by Shadra Bruce | Let's Talk, Love
Every relationship, if it lasts long enough, has to survive periods of intense stress. While there are certain life events that cause a great deal of stress, like changing jobs or schools, getting married or divorced, having a child or having a child go away to school...
by Shadra Bruce | Doing it Alone
Finding the right relationship after you get divorced is not an easy undertaking. For some, it might not be the right idea for quite some time. I really enjoyed my single time after I got divorced. I married so young that I had never really experienced living on my...
