Forced to be family : a guide for living with sinister sisters, drama mamas, and infuriating in-laws
Understanding and dealing with relational aggression among female family members Cheryl Dellasega's Mean Girls Grown Up broke new ground with its in-depth examination of bullying behavior in adult women.
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Acknowledgements. Introduction. PART ONE: FEMALES IN THE FAMILY WAY. 1: A Tale of Two Sisters. 2: The Kitchen Wars: Relational Aggression between Female Relatives. 3: The Female Family Clique. 4: Hardwired to Care: The Kin-Keepers. 5: Men Are Like Bricks, Women Are Like Mortar. 6: Competition: A Help or Hurt? 7: How True, and for Who? 8: Friend vs. Female Family Feuds. PART TWO: MOTHERS, SISTERS, AND DAUGHTERS. 9: Motherhood Revisited. 10: Distressing Daughters. 11: Sweetly Sinister Sisters. PART THREE: IN LAWS AND OTHERS. 12: Mothers and Sisters, By Law. 13: Daughtering, The In-Law Way. PART FOUR: NOT QUITE FAMILY, DEFINITELY RA. 14: Family, More or Less: Extended, Extra, or Estranged. 15: Carebearing and Carewearing. 16: Really Forced to be Family: Divorced. PART FIVE: CONNECTED, CARING, OR COPING. 17: The Female Family Maintenance Plan. 18: The Transformation Treatment Plan. 19: A Time to Act. 20: Special Strategies for Mother or Sister RA. 21: Special Strategies for In-Laws or Exes. 22: Relative RA: What a Therapist Has to Say. 23: Turning Relative Aggression into Relational Affection. References. Index.
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