Adult Children as Husbands, Wives, and Lovers: Solutions for Creating Healthy Intimacy

Do you go out of your way to avoid conflict in your primary relationship? Do you feel that your partner is emotionally closed off from you? Does the fear of abandonment overwhelm you and make you cling to your partner?

Emotions, control, boundaries, intimacy, conflict, commitment: these are issues in any relationship. But if you and/or your partner are Adult Children, these issues can be the source of continuous struggle, pain, and confusion. In Adult Children as Husbands, Wives, and Lovers, Steven Farmer pinpoints how difficulties with these issues originate in childhood, where healthy role models were not available.

Farmer offers examples that illustrate how each of these issues is played out in the relationship, in all their variations. You'll find specific strategies for breaking old destructive patterns, and ideas on how you and your present or future partner can create healthy intimacy. Each chapter includes exercise you can do alone, with a friend, or with your mate that will help you heal old hurts and develop a satisfying relationship.

An Adult Child himself, Farmer shares personal experiences and case histories of unhealthy and healthy relationships to show that having a relationship is a process. You don't have to "have it all together," and there is no such thing as a "perfect relationship." The only requirement is that a couple--or even just one person--face their problems honestly, and find the hope and courage to change.

Author: Steven Farmer
Publisher: Ballantine
Published: 09/19/1991
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.56w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780345373403
ISBN10: 0345373405
BISAC Categories:
- Family & Relationships | Marriage & Long Term Relationships
- Psychology | Emotions

About the Author
Dr. Steven Farmer is a world-renowned author, Soul Healer, shamanic practitioner, and spiritual teacher. He is the author of the recently released Healing Ancestral Karma as well as other bestsellers, including Earth Magic(R), Earth Magic(R) Oracle Cards, Animal Spirit Guides, Pocket Guide to Spirit Animals, Sacred Ceremony, and many other publications, including Children's Spirit Animal Cards, Children's Spirit Animal Stories CD Volumes I & II. He conducts workshops and trainings on a variety of topics related to Earth Magic(R), Soul Healing, shamanism, and Earth-centered spirituality, and offers private consultations face to face or by phone for Earth Magic intuitive readings and shamanic and psychospiritual healing.