Friends for Life: Enriching the Bond Between Mothers and Their Adult Daughters

by Susan Jonas and Marilyn Nissenson

Book Overview

When authors Susan Jonas and Marilyn Nissenson, each the mother of two daughters in their twenties, looked for a book focusing on the needs, hopes, and wishes of mothers of adult daughters, they couldn't find one. So they wrote it. Friends for Life is based on interviews with more than one hundred mothers who shared how they're coping with their daughters' choices of partner, career, and lifestyle. They reflected on their relationships with their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688146732
• ISBN13: 9780688146733
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

What's with That? Great book!

I found the book to provide useful insights into the mother daughter relationships that apply to my own life with my mother AND with my daughter. Life with daughter (especially teens) is sometimes like a soap opera, but understanding more, gives me the ability to keep it from being so.