Walking on Eggshells: Navigating the Delicate Relationship Between Adult Children and Parents

We raise our children to be independent and lead fulfilling lives, but when they finally do, staying close becomes more complicated than ever. And for every bewildered mother who wonders why her children don’t call, there is a frustrated son or daughter who just wants to be treated like a grownup. Now, renowned editor Jane Isay delivers the perfect gift to both parents and their adult children—real-life wisdom and advice on how to stay together without falling apart.

Using extensive interviews with people from ages twenty-five to seventy, Isay shows that we’re far from alone in our struggles to make this new, adult relationship work. She offers up groundbreaking insights and deeply moving stories that will inspire those in even the toughest situations. Isay’s warmth and wit shine through on every page as she charts an invaluable course through the confusing, and often painful, interactions parents and children can face. Walking on Eggshells is the much-needed road map that will keep you connected to the people you love most.

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• How to Really Love Your Adult Child: Building a Healthy Relationship in a Changing World
• Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out
• When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along
• Done With The Crying: Help and Healing for Mothers of Estranged Adult Children
• When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us: Letting Go of Their Problems, Loving Them Anyway, and Getting on with Our Lives
• I Hate You--Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
• Setting Boundaries® with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents
• Mother-Daughter Duet: Getting to the Relationship You Want with Your Adult Daughter
• The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook: Practical Strategies for Living with Someone Who Has Borderline Personality Disorder (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)