How to Stop Your Relatives from Driving You Crazy: Strategies for Coping With (Paperback)

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Product Description
"How to Stop Your Relatives from Driving You Crazy" will help you keep your sanity when dealing with family frictions ranging from the trivial to the catastrophic. With candor, empathy, and a healthy dose of humor, Denise Lang offers clear-eyed solutions to the problems that ignite family explosions.

Focusing on every important "family matter", including money, religion, adult sibling rivalry, divorce, blended families, serious illness, and death, Lang describes effective mechanisms for coping with irritating and destructive behavior. The book features tests designed to help you determine your role in the family-- from Dictator to Goat-- and helpful advice on employing periodic "reality checks" and planned communications. For those truly at the end of their ropes, there are even suggestions for creating a surrogate family!

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Fireside (November 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671789112
• ISBN-13: 978-0671789114
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #845,867 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genuinely needed in most families, July 8, 2007

By	T. Lang (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My friends and I have a saying about this book- if you don't need it, you're the crazy one and you're family does!
Loved the book, the anecdotes- I felt like I really knew the people she was talking about!- and the reality of it all. We're not alone in this people! All of our families are crazy... the question is, will you let them take away your sanity or will you read the book?

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for every family, August 22, 2000

By	Athena Corcoran (Palmer, AK United States) - See all my reviews

This book is a must have for every family out there, disfunctional or not. I bought this book back in 1995 and I have read and reread it several times over the years. It explains the problems that all families experience. You will be so suprised to find that "your" family isn't all that crazy, and most importantly, you'll get great insight on how to keep your family from driving you crazy. I plan to purchase multiple copies this year and give them as gifts. I highly recommend this book to everyone I meet, I just won't let them borrow my copy!