How to Understand Your Relationship Better
The mother-son relationship is the foundation of all female-male relationships. This groundbreaking new book from acclaimed psychologist Dr Evelyn Bassoff shows you how you can understand and enjoy relationship with your son better.
With insight, wisdom and compassion, Evelyn Bassoff explores the complex, confused and often troubled feelings typically experienced by mothers raising sons. She describes what bringing up sons entails for mothers in different situations - married mothers, single mothers, stepmothers and mothers of gay sons. She explains how mothers can deal with the frustrations and hurts of motherhood; how they can delight in and have fun with their sons; and, most importantly, how, in this age of despair and violence, mothers can help their sons grow into loving yet independent men.
Drawing on psychological research, clinical cases, legends, fiction and her adventures in raising her own son, now nineteen, Evelyn Bassoff provides a new and valuable perspective on the mother-son bond.