Breaking the Mother-Son Dynamic - by John Lee (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Recognizing the mother-son dynamic -- Patterns and predictability -- Taking responsibility -- Appropriately expressing anger about the mother-son dynamic -- More solutions -- Finding and maintaining rhythms of closeness -- Growing and knowing ourselves, free from the mother-son dynamic.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Therapists and the general public are familiar with the terms (s)mothering, helicopter moms, and boomerang sons because they have been popularized in films like <i>Monster in Law</i>, <i>Cyrus</i> and<i> Failure to Launch</i>--but what makes for humorous fodder onscreen depicts a troubling issue that's being played out for real in therapists' offices, bedrooms, and divorce courts across the nation: an epidemic of men who are enmeshed in unhealthy, energy-sucking, and emasculating relationships with their mothers. Even though these men are grown and living away from Mom, her influence has left them unable to fully commit or to fully love, and they are plagued with anger issues, indecisiveness, depression, or toxic stress. <p/>In Breaking the<i> Mother-Son Dynamic</i>, John Lee takes an eye-opening look at how a mother's love or lack thereof impacts a son's life choices as well as their wives, girlfriends, or lovers. Perhaps you are one of these men (or maybe you recognize these behaviors in the man you love). Do you hold back, swallow, or bottle up things you wish you could say to your mother for fear it would upset or 'kill' her? Did you grow up hearing negative things about men, masculinity, being a male, and how you shouldn't be like the rest of them? Does your mother, or did she, fail to respect your boundaries as a child, adolescent, or adult? Does your mother keep referring to you as her baby or her little boy even after you became an adult? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be caught in an unhealthy mother-son dynamic that is negatively affecting key areas of your life. <p/>Several years ago, John Lee wrote what came to be the most authoritative book on why men run from relationships, <i>The Flying Boy: Healing the Wounded Man</i>. Here, he visits the mother-son relationship and gently but assertively shows men how to separate from the mother energy that has a massive pull on their hearts and souls, no matter how young or old they may be. In a work that is a combination of memoir, self-help psychology, recovery and personal growth, he discovers: why a relationship of 50-50 responsibility doesn't work, and what does work; how men can stop 'sonning' mothers, lovers, and wives; why one must learn his or her own rhythm of closeness; how to be really present to those we love and to life itself; and much, much more. <p/>Using case studies, personal stories, and assessments, the book helps men release any anger and grief toward their mothers and teaches them how to take responsibility for their adult selves; most importantly, Lee provides an understanding of what healthy adults should--and shouldn't--expect from each other. Lee shows wives and girlfriends how to stop being their man's surrogate mother and shows well-meaning mothers how certain behaviors may perpetuate an unhealthy cycle and how to better relate to their sons in healthier ways. By helping mothers and sons identify this dynamic and providing them with the tools to dismantle it, this book will change lives. For anyone who is ready to make a clean, clear, and guilt-free separation from the kind of (s)mothering and sonning that just hasn't worked, John Lee will show them the way.
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