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Necessary losses

On verso title page: The loves, illusions, dependencies, and impossible expectations that all of us have to give up in order to grow
Print Book, English, ©1986
Simon and Schuster, New York, ©1986
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447 pages ; 24 cm
9780671456559, 9780671653200, 9781555042295, 9781555042714, 9780684844954, 0671456555, 0671653202, 1555042295, 1555042716, 0684844958
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The separate self. The high cost of separation
The ultimate connection
Standing alone
The private "I"
Lessons in love
The forbidden and the impossible. When are you taking that new kid back to the hospital?
Passionate triangles
Anatomy and destiny
Good as guilt
Childhood's end
Imperfect connections. Dreams and realities
Convenience fiends and historical friends and crossroads and cross-generational friends and friends who come when you call at two in the morning
Love and hate in the married state
Saving the children
Family feelings
Loving, losing, leaving, letting go. Love and mourning
Shifting images
I grow old ... I grow old
The ABC of dying
Reconnections