Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Difficult, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

21 reviews

stepnic's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Misogyny, Child abuse, Abandonment, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Grief, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Infidelity, and Addiction

basicbookstagrammer's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

johannarose's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Physical abuse, and Child abuse

hann_smc's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

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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Content Warnings

Minor: Gaslighting, Mental illness, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Alcoholism, and Physical abuse

jenlenry's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Emotional abuse

ccvanleuven's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, and Toxic relationship

aus10england's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Mental illness, and Gaslighting

betsygrace's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

This was a great read. If anyone has any sort of conflict with a loved one, this book can be a great guide to setting boundaries and reacting to emotionally immature people. I really liked it. Would’ve given it five stars, but it is a little slow. That said, it was still incredibly informative and enlightening for me! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Toxic relationship

arby55's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

nicklybear's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting