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When You and Your Mother Can't be Friends (Paperback)

by Victoria Secunda (Author)

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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; Reprint edition (1990)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0385304234
ISBN-13: 978-0385304238
Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars This book changed my life really!, 15 Jun 1999

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This book helped me regain my sanity. My mother for lack of a better word is a self-proclaimed matyr and I felt guilty since I can remember for ever making her the least bit uncomfortable, my sister did too. This book helped me realize that just because someone is a mother doesn't make them a good parent and that there are others like me. It takes you through your family's history and helps you to understand why mom may be the way she is and what you can do to deal with (or chose not to deal with) that relationship.

I was on the verge of never speaking to my mother or her side of the family again, but this book turned it around and now although I doubt we will ever be like a TV 50s family, I can talk to my mom and she appears to listen to what I say.

I highly recommend this book if you are feeling the least bit guilty about what you feel about dear old mom, want to cut her out of your life, or just want to understand why you and your mom have little to nothing in common.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Every Child Should Have A Copy!, 25 Oct 2002

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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Very sound advice., 26 Feb 2008

By	B. "go on, take my advice - you know you want... - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

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 troublemaker? a defector?). This part had me scoffing: "I'm not that easily pinned down," I huffed. Then I got to the chapter on defectors and my jaw hit the floor. I suppose if that's not a tribute to this book I don't know what is.

And while some fences can never be mended, the overall tone is a good one: reminding us that no mother ever starts out wanting to hurt her child. That maybe my mother was a victim of her circumstances as much as I've been a victim of mine, or you've been a victim of yours.

Forgiveness may not be an option, but acceptance & understanding should always be something to strive for.

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5.0 out of 5 stars MUST READING FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO MAKE IT BETTER.
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