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Happy Thursday!
I hope you've had a good week!
FREE Q AND A
Monday, June 6 at 11:30am Pacific
Listening method: Phone or Web
Ask me anything you like related to estrangement but please keep all questions between 2-3 sentences.
Can't make it then? Enter your question at the website using the link below and listen to the replay later on your computer using the same link. All questions answered on first-come, first-served basis. You can enter your question now using the link below to secure your place.
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"Why Do They Only Call When They Need Something??"
This is a question that I commonly hear from parents of adult children. There are many questions behind this question:
- Do my children really care about me?
- Are they just using me for my money?
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If I give it to them, am I rewarding all of the ways that I feel
manipulated, hurt, or abused by them?
If I don't give it to them, will they become even more rejecting than they already are? If I don't give it to them, will they become even more rejecting than they already are?
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If I do give it to them, am I reinforcing their inability or failure to grow up?
These questions also raises questions about how to respond:
If you need help in this area, join us for this Tuesday's webinar:
Tuesday, June 7
530 PM Pacific, 630 PM Mountain,
730 PM Central, 830 PM Eastern
SHOULD I CUT THEM OUT OF MY WILL?
Handling the Issue of Money, Gifts, and Inheritance
Tuesday, June 14
530 PM Pacific, 630 PM Mountain,
730 PM Central, 830 PM Eastern
DOES MY CHILD HAVE A PERSONALITY DISORDER OR OTHER MENTAL ILLNESS?
Understanding Its Role in Estrangement
Tuesday, June 21
530 PM Pacific, 630 PM Mountain,
730 PM Central, 830 PM Eastern
MY ESTRANGED CHILD IS BACK: NOW WHAT?
Learning How to Navigate Early
Reconciliation
Each webinar comes with:
- Free study guide
- Link to the live webinar to listen to over the phone or computer
- Q and A during live webinar
- Complete transcript of lecture after it airs
- Link to the webinar recording after it airs
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About Dr. Coleman
Dr. Coleman is a psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-partisan organization of leading sociologists, historians, psychologists and demographers dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families. He has lectured at Harvard University, The University of California at Berkeley, The University of London, Cornell Weill Medical School, and blogs on parent-adult child relationships for the U.C. Berkeley publication, Greater Good Magazine.
Dr. Coleman is frequently contacted by the media for opinions and commentary about changes in the American family. He has been a frequent guest on the Today Show, NPR, and The BBC, and has also been featured on Sesame Street, 20/20, Good Morning America, America Online Coaches, PBS, and numerous news programs for FOX, ABC, CNN, and NBC television. His advice has appeared in The New York Times, The Times of London, The Shriver Report, Fortune, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Psychology Today, U.S. World and News Report, Parenting Magazine, The Baltimore Sun and many others.
He is the author of numerous articles and chapters and has written four books: The Marriage Makeover: Finding Happiness in Imperfect Harmony (St. Martin's Press); The Lazy Husband: How to Get Men to Do More Parenting and Housework (St. Martin's Press); When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along (HarperCollins); and Married with Twins: Life, Love and the Pursuit of Marital Harmony. His books have been translated into Chinese, Croatian, and Korean, and are also available in the U.K., Canada, and Australia.
He is the co-editor, along with historian Stephanie Coontz of seven online volumes of Unconventional Wisdom: News You Can Use, a compendium of noteworthy research on the contemporary family, gender, sexuality, poverty, and work-family issues.
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