When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life

“A book of great value for every daughter and every mother; useful for sons, too.”—Benjamin Spock, M.D.

From the Introduction:
The goal of this book is to help readers achieve that separation so that they can either find a way to be friends with their mothers, or at least recognize and accept that their mothers did the best they could—even if it wasn't “good enough”—and to stop blaming them. Among the issues to be covered:

• To understand how a daughter's attachment to her mother—more so tha...