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When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends
by: Victoria Secunda

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.8743
EAN: 9780385304238
ISBN: 0385304234
Label: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Manufacturer: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: January 01, 1920
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Studio: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Sales Rank: 12079

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Synopsis:
Identifies five types of difficult mothers and the reactions they produce in their children, and offers advice on improving the mother-child relationship.

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- Made me feel less of a freak.
I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever had problems with their mother or simply need to understand mother-daughter dynamics. This interplay does not only effect the direct protagonists but it also has a profound effect on our choice of friends, partners and work. Understanding this relationship means starting the road to real maturity.
I myself being a person who is in therapy because of a dominating mother, found this book helpful. Reading about other women having problems with their own mother helped me feel less lonely and less of a freak.
The book is divided in various sections amongst which the various types of dysfunctional mothers and the different types of dysfunctional daughter. One the result of the other in ... Read More:

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- Very sound advice.
I bought this for obvious reasons. Being estranged from you mother can be a very lonely, isolating thing. After all, how many people do you know who aren't close to their mother? Not in a "grrr, she drives me crazy... let the answering machine pick up & I'll deal with her later" kind of way, but in a "I haven't spoken to my mother in years and it's better that way" way?

Personally I don't know of anyone other than, well, me. And in that sense this book is a tremendous help. Reading the first-hand account of others in the same boat made me feel far less isolated and alone.

There were also profiles offered of the types of women who've fallen out with their mothers and then moved on (i.e. are you an overachiever? a ... Read More:

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- A very informative Best Friend!
If you have been sending SOS signals to all your friends and family about your relationship with your mother then this is the book for you! Whether it is just an irritation or a completely Life-ruining distress, this book is an easy-to-read but very informative Best Friend!

No-one is trained to be a mother and so many women wind up with an emotional responsibility that they are simply not able to deal with and don't know why. Many are still overwhelmed with unfinished business from their own childhoods. This book does not make excuses for bad mothers but nor does it condemn, it really helps to find solutions. Even for those of us for whom there are no solutions, understanding helps to come to terms with it.

You may feel ... Read More:

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- "When you and your mother can't be friends." Victoria Secunda
After speaking with my mother on the phone, I was left feeling attacked, defeated, belittled, challenged and totally confused again! These feeling were familiar and predictable. I had ordered this book months ago. When it had arrived I had put it in a drawer and left it, part of my denial of the situation and subconscious willingness to continue this destructive pattern as to me it felt "normal".
This time I felt too sick and tired to go on, so I found the book and read it. What a huge relief to find I was not crazy after all! As a result I have gone on to read many more books on destructive relationship patterns in the family, and only wish that I had done so years ago. It would have saved me a lot of suffering and heartache. This ... Read More:

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- Every Child Should Have A Copy!
This book is quite simply life-changing.

Forget weighty psycholgy tomes with their dry identification of signs and symptoms of labelled personality "disorders" of parents and children, read this and find out how these wretched behaviour patterns were set up in the first place.

Incredibly illuminating, compassionate and sensible, this is a must for any daughter who feels misunderstood, embittered, angered, or simply saddened by their relationship with their mother. Or their father, for that matter. Very, very helpful stuff.

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