An edition of When our grown kids disappoint us
(2003)
When our grown kids disappoint us
letting go of their problems, loving them anyway, and getting on with our lives
by Jane Adams
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When our grown kids disappoint us: letting go of their problems, loving them anyway, and getting on with our lives
2003, Free Press
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0743232801 9780743232807
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Table of Contents
May I Talk to You Privately?
Whose Story Is This?
When Bad Things Happen to Good Parents
Our Dirty Little Secret
The Elephant in the Parlor
The Kids Are All Right and Other Lies Parents Tell About Their Grown Children
The Most Privileged Generation in History
Except Theirs
Great Expectations: Ours or Theirs
Who's in Trouble Here?
Making Them Happy Is Not Up to Us
But Can We Be Happy If They're Not?
We're Waiting ... and Waiting ... and Waiting
When We Were Their Age
Prolonging the Search for Identity
Or Just Avoiding It?
Excuse Us, But We're Having an Identity Crisis, Too
Our Other Unfinished Task
Two Kinds of Parents, Same Kind of Kids
In Whose Good Time?
Addicted, Depressed, and Dependent: A Detour or a Final Destination?
Whose Fault Is It, Anyway?
The Two Myths of Parenthood
"I'll Never Make the Mistakes My Parents Made"
Wrestling Guilt to the Ground
The Echo of Our Childhoods
Regret Is Guilt Without the Neurosis
Why Wasn't I Listening?
When the Writing's on the Wall
Good Enough Is the Best We Can Do
They're Ba-a-a-ck!
The Never-Empty Nest
Out of Time and Out of Patience
Sparing the Help vs. Spoiling the Child
Lives Without Guideposts
Leaving No Forwarding Address
The Challenge of Independence
Strangled by Our Purse Strings
"Why Should They Wait Till We're Dead?"
Codependent on Dr. Spock
Parents Who Give Too Much
Maybe We Shouldn't Have Inhaled
The Perils of Nostalgia
It's Not the Age of Aquarius Any Longer
Is It a Symptom or a Disease?
Family Day at Rehab
Staying Out of Their Program
Doing the Wrong Thing
The Limits of Love
Paying a Different Kind of Attention
Denying the Undeniable
The Real Truth About Gay Pride
Following the Pied Piper
An Alternative to What?
Who Are the Victims Here?
Forgiving the Unforgivable
Separating from Their Problems Without Separating from Them
The Key to Our Survival
Thank You for Sharing
Marriages Under Fire
Blurred Boundaries, Loving Limits
But What About the Grandchildren?
Phantom Guilt and Other Crimes of the Heart
Reinventing Our Lives: The Challenge of Postparenthood
Reinvigorating the Postparenthood Marriage
New Wine in Old Bottles
Different Times, Different Agendas
Shuffling the Deck for a New Deal.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-200) and index.
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