This is a learning and self-help book, a way to improved understanding. The reader will experience the emotional dynamic of this highly charged relationship. The tears, frustrations, life-long angers and deep, mysterious love that binds mothers to daughters and daughters to mothers are revealed in the actual words of real women in real situations... no stereotypes. The commentary and exercises accompanying each story invite the readers to a better understanding of themselves and their relationships. The stories are bound together through cartoons, poems and quotations. This book is a joy to read and fun to work with.