I'm Still Your Mother : How to Get Along with Your Grown-up Children for the Rest of Your Life

, by Adams, Jane

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ISBN: 9780595183586 | 0595183581
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/1/2001

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Introduction

Could This Be You?

Maybe This is Just a Stage You're Going Through

Is This Book for You?

You're Still Their Mother

It Ain't Over Till It's Over

(22)

The Silent Minority: Isn't He Still Their Father Too?

Postparents---Who We Are

What We Want for Our Children

What We Want for Ourselves

Why We Are Worried Now

Core Identities and Shifting Roles

How They're Doing

How We're Doing

Finishing Up Your Business With Your Kids

(27)

If We Had It to Do Over Again, We Wouldn't

Sooner, Not Later

Mother's Guilt Is Never Done

It's Their Story, and They're Sticking to It

Does Therapy Make It Better or Worse?

Regret Is Guilt Without Neuroses

Coming to Terms with Our Own Parents: The First Step

The Way It Was---and Is

Who's the Parent Here?

Whose Life Is It, Anyway?

(25)

How Strong Is the Safety Net?

Living with Their Choices

What's a Parent to Do?

Love Means Never Saying I Told You So

Why They Can't Learn from Our Mistakes

Dependent No More

Boomerang Kids---One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

If at First They Don't Succeed

Have a Great Life

Making Their Way In The World

(21)

Great Expectations---Whose Fault, Whose Failure?

I Don't Care What You Do, Darling, As Long As It Makes You Happy, and Other Lies Mothers Tell Their Children

What Kind of Job Is That for a Grown Person?

They Just Don't Understand Him

My Hairdresser's Cousin Knows the Person Who's Hiring

The Perpetual Graduate Student

The Trying Twenties: Making the First Choice

By Love Possessed

(27)

Nobody Will Ever Love You the Way I Do

What Does He See in Her, Anyway?

Not Our Kind of People

As Long As They're Happy

Why People Tell Jokes About Mothers-in-law

Divorce Wars

The Right Side to Be On

What If They're Gay?

Just Wear Beige and Keep Your Mouth Shut

Your Money Or Your Life

123

(24)

Doing the Right Thing

Securing Our Future

A Choice, Not a Duty

Keeping Them Tied by the Purse Strings

When I Say No, I Feel Guilty---Maybe

The Last Frontier of Self-disclosure

All in the Family

Will They Always Call Home Collect?

Why Can't They Be Friends?

147

(18)

You Always Loved the Other One More

Can They Count on Each Other?

The Eternal Triangle

Divided Loyalties

Getting Out of the Way

The Quasi-Parent

Bonus Babies

165

(20)

Why No Woman Is Ever Too Young to Be a Grandmother

They All Think They're Raising the Dalai Lama

In Loco Parentis

Pick Up Your Toys and Go Home

How Not to Get Caught in the Crossfire

Plastic-Coated Grandma

Boon Companions

The Best Part

Reversals Of Fortune

185

(14)

How Can You Sell the House I Grew Up In?

Can Two Women Ever Share a Kitchen?

Asking for Help When You Have To

Rites of Passage

When the Roles Reverse

EPILOGUE

199

(4)

How to Tell the Parent from the Child

A Resource Guide for the Parents of Grown-up Children

203

(4)

Bibliography

207

(4)

Index

211

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