Another Big Decision when Marrying Later in Life is blending homes. Will you be moving into his home, will he be moving into yours or  will you be buying a new home that will be community property.  Either way, our impulse as women is to create a beautiful home right away. From our experience, these feelings [...]

Another Big Decision when Marrying Later in Life entails inheriting children from one or both parties. In my case, I inherited three young adults and Marsha & her Big Daddy inherited two a piece. The popular name given to this role is usually that of “step mom” or” step dad.” We wouldn’t say it’s popular term. [...]

Lovely Brides to be, To add to our last blog: Here is the bouquet from Dana and Tom that was given to Joan and Bill in celebration of their 52 years of marriage. Enjoy! Hugs, Elizabeth & Marsha Posted via email from mll’s posterous

The little things we  as parents or grandparents say and do that impact our children and grandchildren for years to come have always amazed me. My first lesson was from my grandmother was when I was 8. It was summertime in Ohio and the mornings were usually quite brisk, especially at 7AM. I was going [...]

Some days I wake up and feel this way. That I am going in two different directions at once like my shoes. Before getting married to my husband, whom I call affectionally, “Big Daddy,” I had never officially been a Mom. “Big Liz” to my friends children, but never a Mother to my own children. [...]

My shoes today will talk about my journey as a step mom over the last ten years of marriage. First of all, I am one of the lucky ones and so is Marsha. We are each blessed with adding lovely children to our combined fold of family. They all get along famously and have become [...]

Marrying Later in Life brides have other challenges than first time brides do. We will address those changes in today’s post and in future articles. Today we will talk about the actual ceremony and look forward to your responses. As Modern Mature Brides, we tend to focus on the ceremony as a time to include [...]

Marrying Later in Life as you may have discovered, more often than not includes blending families. How will they all come together as a family and how smooth will the transition be? We married men much older, thus their children were in their 20′s. However there were still challenges along the way with the addition [...]

MLL DESCRIPTION: Marrying Later in Life is a web site and soon to be published book for women getting married after 40. The site offers expert advice in many areas of interest to brides marrying later in life, such as blending families, children, homes, careers, social and religious lives as well as how to buy [...]