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When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life

This, the first book ever to say that mother is not always a girl's best friend, is based on a landmark study of the mother-daughter relationships. Secunda offers breakthrough advice on understanding, and improving, what could be a woman's most critical relationship.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 432 pages

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