This is the book to read when you want a new relationship with your mother or your daughter. It's designed to be a workbook. To start you may want to think about what kind of relationship you have now. Five categories: Best Buddies, Never the Twain Shall Meet, Friends, Nothing in Common, or Strangers. As a blurb at the start of the book says, most women do not want to be their mothers! So much comes into play; generational differences, personalities, old and ongoing conflicts, world views.
I don't usually include books of the self-help type in this blog, but the FAMILY MAPING and making GENOGRAMS as illustrated in this book is something that I suspect most people who are doing their genealogy are already doing - in their minds.
Those squares are for the paternal line, the circles for the maternal. There are even icons you can use when you make your map for died, divorced, conflicted, Indentical twins, and so on. The idea is to briefly list, under each person on your map or chart, something about their career, personality - the negatives and positives which might be your personal experience or opinion. Mapped out like this, you might make your own personal genogram and come to some realizations.
Do I suggest you publish such a genogram or family map in your book? Absolutely not. This is just for you. It's not a suggestion that anyone reveal such personal things to anyone in a book or in a database or on the internet. Some things are sacred and that should include your personal relationship information. However, mother's day is coming up, and you have time to read this book and maybe give it as a gift.
That's a hint!
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