Susan Forward's practical and powerful book will help couples cope with terrible and toxic in-laws.
Toxic in-laws are in-laws who create genuine chaos through various assaults--aggressive or subtle--on you and your marriage. Toxic-in laws come in a wide variety of guises: "The Critics," who tell you what you're doing wrong; "The Controllers," who try to run you and your partner's life; "The Engulfers," who make incessant demands on your time; "The Masters of Chaos," who drain you and your partner with their problems; and "The Rejecters," who let you know they don't want you as part...
Susan Forward's practical and powerful book will help couples cope with terrible and toxic in-laws.
Do any of the above sound familiar? They're all examples of emotional blackmail, a powerful form of manipulation in which people close to us threaten to punish us for not doing what they want. Emotional blackmailers know how much we value our relationships with them. They know our vulnerabilities and our deepest secrets. They are our mothers, our partners, our bosses and coworkers, our friends and our lovers. And no matter how much they care about us, they use this intimate knowledge to...
Have you ever been lied to by a lover? In this straightforward and supportive book, therapist Susan Forward profiles the wide variety of liars, shows you how to deal with the lies -- from the benign to the lethal -- that these men spin, and gives practical strategies to stop them before they ruin your relationship and, ultimately, your life.
Once you find out the truth about your lover and his lies, what do you do? Forward offers practical, proven, step-by-step methods for healing the wounds caused by his deception and betrayal. She provides all the communication and behavioral...
Have you ever been lied to by a lover? In this straightforward and supportive book, therapist Susan Forward profiles the wide variety of liars, sho...
From the bestselling author of Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them comes a revised edition of her classic study on the traumatic effects of incest.
From the bestselling author of Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them comes a revised edition of her classic study on the traumatic effects of...
- Did your parents tell you you were bad or worthless? - Did your parents use physical pain to discipline you? - Did you have to take care of your parents because of their problems? - Were you often frightened of your parents? - Did your parents do anything to you that had to be kept secret?
Now that you're an adult...
- Do your parents still treat you as if you were a child? - Do you have intense emotional or physical reactions after spending time with your parents? - Do your parents...
Are you the child of toxic parents?
When you were a child...
- Did your parents tell you you were bad or worthless? - Did your pa...
- Do you yearn for someone who is not physically or emotionally available to you? - Do you believe that if you love him enough he will have to love you? - When you feel insecure, does it drive you only to want her more? - Do you find yourself phoning repeatedly or waiting long hours for the phone to ring?
Do you wish someone would let go of you?
- Does an ex-lover or ex-spouse refuse to believe that it's over? - Do you receive unwanted phone calls, letters, presents, or visits? - Is this pursuit of...
Is it impossible to let go -- despite the pain?
- Do you yearn for someone who is not physically or emotionally available to you? - D...
"Du sollst Vater und Mutter ehren" verlangt die Bibel - egal, ob die dich beschimpft und geschlagen, verhöhnt und gequält haben? Millionen von Menschen erlebten ihre Kindheit als Alptraum. Aber weil sie wehrlose, abhängige Opfer waren, können sie die Schuldigen nicht benennen, richten negative Gefühle ohnmächtig gegen sich selbst. Im Erwachsenenalter wirkt die vergiftete Kindheit immer noch nach - mangelndes Selbstwertgefühl und latenten Aggressionen sind die Folgen.§Susan Forward will helfen, diesen Teufelskreis zu durchbrechen. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele aus ihrer...
"Du sollst Vater und Mutter ehren" verlangt die Bibel - egal, ob die dich beschimpft und geschlagen, verhöhnt und gequält haben? Millionen von Mensc...
With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters--and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that painful legacy.
In more than 35 years as a therapist, Forward has worked with large numbers of women struggling to escape the emotional damage inflicted by the women who raised them. Subjected to years of criticism, competition, role-reversal, smothering control, emotional neglect and...
With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents...