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This book is a great starting point for learning to recognize emotionally immature behaviors in your parents (and yourself!), but it is very much a starting point. If you have been on this journey for any length of time quite a bit of it becomes redundant.
The beginning felt like it was leaning "blame all your issues on your parents, don't worry about taking accountability for anything" but later chapters did start to dive into ways to make changes in order to be more emotionally mature / attract emotionally mature people into your life which was good.
It relies heavily on anecdotes, which sometimes can be interesting, but often they were very surface level and repetitive.
Again, this book was very much for the start of the journey. If that's where I was then I do think this book would have been more eye-opening for me. As it was, I still did learn and it was able to inspire some soul searching on my part. Especially the later chapters.

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challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

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emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.75

This book didn't show me much that I didn't already know, but regardless I thought it was a solid read that is accessible and clearly outlines both emotional immaturity in parents and how to cultivate your own positive relationships!! It's funny that my parent fit the descriptions in this book so perfectly, and I feel validated.

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challenging emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

this book was incredibly hard to read, but incredibly useful in coping with emotionally immature parents. 1000000% recommend for those who think their parents may be emotionally immature, no matter to what degree.

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