Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration

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And you can now redefine who you are, and what’s possible for you to create in this lifetime that is outside of your relationship with your mother.

As she had in the past, she faced adversity and found her inner power by embracing her devotion to sports and family. This is a must-read for anyone who finds themselves accepting bad behavior from others over and over again, and are finally ready to make a change. It seems like she's saying that mothers only behave in this way to their daughters, whereas in reality they can and sometimes do do this to their sons as well.Women’s generational experience of being emotionally silenced and emotionally neglected is a common theme between mothers and daughters. I had to help Sandeep stay safe and grieve the loss of her family even as she gained her own voice and life.

The truth is, if my years of experience providing therapy are any indication, many women currently experience mother-daughter relationship conflict. Sandeep had become an expert on responding to what her mother needed and being a “dutiful daughter,” but she had little idea about what she wanted for herself, beyond finishing her degree.

I’ve been wanting to read this ever since deciding to estrange myself from my parents and then subsequently coming across Karen Anderson’s interview on Unladylike. It creates an either-or dynamic in which the mother and daughter fight over who gets to be heard and emotionally supported in their relationship because they do not know how to create a normal in which both are heard and supported. The next book I read about family estrangement, I think will stick to a novel or biography to see it through someone else’s lens.