What Makes or Breaks a Stepmother-Stepdaughter Relationship

Psychology Today | 16.06.2026 00:14
I listened as my client shared an indelible childhood memory. She was 11 years old, watching a movie on the couch with her dad. Enter her new stepmother, Jan, who insisted she move to the end of the couch so Jan could sit next to her dad. Decades later, my client still felt the sting from the way Jan’s insecurities severed the relationship with her father.