In order to sell yourself, your family, and others on your blended family and how it works is for you to create experiences that produce lasting memories.

It’s communication that breaks or makes any relationship. How well one communicates is a predictor of how well one’s family is going to work.

Whether you want to or not, making a blended family or any family work, takes work. It takes working together. While normal behaviors yield working apart, working together which is rare and uncommon, will produce results that lead to success in families.

In this web-post, we outline where our allies fit within the seven levels of relationships and why having them in the right place is important to making a blended family work.