Finding the words
Subtitle: candid conversations with loved ones
By: Susan P. Halpern.
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781556438387
Subjects: Interpersonal communication; Communication in the family; Conversation
Description: "Offers readers practical suggestions and scripted solutions for discussing difficult issues--love, sex, money, divorce, aging--with partners, parents, children, and siblings"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Cultivating conscious conversations as a couple; title: Getting along in a love relationship; title: Accepting differences between partners; title: Bringing words of love to intimate moments; title: Speaking candidly during major life challenges; title: Making divorce less disruptive and painful; title: Learning to be adults with each other, parents and their adult children; title: Watching married children find their own way; title: Repairing rifts between parents and an adult child; title: Supporting adult children as they begin to parent; title: Nurturing and reviving friendship among siblings; title: Using intergenerational conversations to make decisions at the end of life.