Cheryl Miller Dellasega

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Published by: Wiley
Release Date: September 28, 2007
Pages: 272
ISBN13: 978-0470049990

 
OVERVIEW

You can survive the "kitchen wars “and live in peace with your family

"My sisters-in-law couldn't stand me. I was really hurt when my kids weren't mentioned in their grandmother's obituary because they weren't 'full-blooded' family."

"My mom is always giving advice, always telling me to do such and such when she doesn't do it herself. If my husband and I have a fight, she takes his side!"

"My sister did call me a week later to apologize but proceeded to tell me everything that was wrong with me, my husband, and my children."

Sound familiar? There's nothing new or unusual about conflict between mothers, sisters, and other female family members but that doesn't make it any less painful or destructive. Adding to the hurt of relational abuse within the family is the permanent nature of the relationship: you can sever relations with an abusive friend, but you can't stop being the sister/daughter/niece of an abusive relative. Does that mean that there's no way out?

In Forced to Be Family, you'll discover how to determine whether a female family member is being abusive, recognize the sources of that abuse, and break the vicious cycle that keeps the abuse alive. You don't have to choose between accepting abuse and "making a scene." This insightful, reassuring guide gives you the strategies and understanding you need to reestablish warm and loving relationships with the women who will always be closest to you.

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PRAISE

From the author of the Surviving Ophelia, Girl Wars and Mean Girls Grown Up comes a new self-help book about how to deal with the women in your family.

Dellasega asserts that women hurt each other more than men, particularly when they're related. As a result, sisters, daughters and in-laws often find themselves in abusive relationships that they don't know how to stop. Forced to be Family recounts stories of these types of painful female relationships and offers insight and strategies to cope.
—ABC News