Workflow email reminders on calculated date column - Paused

I am having an issue in trying to setup a SP designer workflow to be able to send a notification if an approval is not met by a certain date. I was hoping someone could point out where I am going wrong with the
workflow details below?
The workflow is based off an infopath form. The form when submitted sends an email to the appropriate person that an action is required (which works fine). I
have created a calculated column (Reminder-2A) which is [Created]+20. So the approver has 20 days to approve the form. The workflow is required to send a notification to the user if the form has not been approved.
I have tried to use the "Start on item change" workflow context & paused the workflow until the ReminderDate is greater than or equal today. There are 2 steps for this approval so I have 2 approval steps based off the FormStatus when the approval
takes place.
So the issue stems from the first step not getting released from its pause state. I was hoping that once the form is approved the FormStatus field would force the workflow to complete that step (unpause) and move to the next step but how I have it currently,
it does not work that way. Can someone point me in the right direction as how I go about achieving this?
I have attached a snippet of the 2 stage approval and the workflow state on the SharePoint site
Many thanks

Hi Luca,
I think you can use event handler associated with item for item changed. Every time an item has been edited, check whether a workflow instance is still running. If so, cancel the running workflow. This link would help you. http://chrissyblanco.blogspot.com/2007/08/cancelling-running-workflow.html
If you don't want to go for coding, you can try below approach, SP designer workflows have this behavior that they do not stop when the item is updated.
Create 2 lists (parent and child) and a workflow on each (wf1 and wf2) respectively. When your condition meets in the workflow(wf1) of parent list, create an item in child list on which the wf2 workflow starts and pauses till the specified date. Once the
pause is completed, you can send the mail from workflow 1 or 2 and then delete the item in child list.
Modify your Parent list workflow to handle the below scenario. If you ever update the item in parent list, delete the corresponding item in child list that was paused/waiting and create a fresh one.
You need to store the fields Parent list Item ID, version(optional).
Parent list is your actual list. Child list is a staging one which you never expose to anyone.
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