The Emotionally Absent Mother - Claiming the Warmth, Respect, and Love Mom Never Gave You (Paperback)

Approximately one-third of children have an insecure attachment to their mothers. And those children who are "under-mothered" often become adults who, decades later, still feel they don't have the support they need to meet critical challenges, have trouble forming healthy intimate relationships, and have an unmet hunger to be nurtured. "The Emotionally Absent Mother" explains in everyday language why this is so and what people can do to make up for the mothering they missed.

Jasmin Lee Cori provides readers clear ways to sort through their emotions and to heal the past. She shows that what they thought of as personal "defects" can sometimes be linked to mothering "deficits," relieving self-blame. And she offers suggestions for how these missing elements can be made up for "now"--whether through therapy, close relationships, or by people providing them for themselves.