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Summary:

How to navigate through difficult relationships in marriage, family, and friendships.

Table of Contents:

• ch. 1. Finding your voice
• ch. 2. Voice lessons from my father
• ch. 3. Our first family : where we learned (not) to speak
• ch. 4. Should you share vulnerability
• ch. 5. In praise of pretending
• ch. 6. Putting our parents on the hot seat
• ch. 7. Love can make you stupid
• ch. 8. Marriage : where's your bottom line
• ch. 9. "I can't live with this" : voicing the ultimate in marriage
• ch. 10. Warming things up
• ch. 11. Silent men/angry women
• ch. 12. Criticism is hard to take
• ch. 13. An apology? : don't hold your breath
• ch. 14. complaining and negativity : when you can't listen another minute
• ch. 15. The sounds of silence : finding a voice when you're rejected and cut off
• Epilogue : to thine own self be true.

Author/Creator:

Lerner, Harriet Goldhor , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The dance of connection: how to talk to someone when you're mad, hurt, scared, frustrated, insulted, betrayed, or desperate [by Lerner, H.G.]

Subjects:

Interpersonal communication

Intimacy (Psychology)

Communication

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-243) and index.

Physical Description:

xii, 256 pages ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

BF637.C45 L47 2001

ISBNs:

0060196386 (hardcover)
9780060196387
006095616X
9780060956165

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

00054182

OCLC Numbers:

45634501