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I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking to Your Parents, Partner, Sibs, and Kids When You're All Adults

Paperback • 2002 • English

I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking to Your Parents, Partner, Sibs, and Kids When You're All Adults

By Deborah Tannen

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About the book

Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic even when we're all adults. Searching for signs of acceptance and belonging, we find signs of disapproval and rejection. Why do the seeds of family love so often yield a harvest of criticism and judgment? In I ...Show more

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ISBN

9780345407528

Publisher

Ballantine Books

Published year

2002

Language

English

Original title

I Only Say This Because I Love You: Talking to Your Parents, Partner, Sibs, and Kids When You're All Adults

Format

Paperback

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