The Mama's Boy Myth: Why Keeping Our Sons Close Makes Them Stronger

About this book

A radical reexamination of the mother-and-son relationship that advocates the end of the mamas boy taboo. Mothers get the message early and oftenpush your sons away. Dont keep them emotionally bound to you. Back off because boys need to learn to stand on their own. It is as if there were an existing playbookbased on gender role preconceptions dating back to Freud Oedipus and beyondthat prescribes the way mothers and their sons should interact. Kate Stone Lombardi an award-winning journalist who has written for the New York Times for more than twenty years persuasively argues that much of the entrenched wisdom about mothers and sons is hopelessly outdated. Highlighting new research The Mamas Boy Myth reveals that boys who are close to their mothers are happier more secure and enjoy stronger connections with their friends and ultimately their spouses. With revealing interviews and moving case studies Lombardi argues that the rise of the new maleone who is more emotionally intelligent and sensitive without being less manlyis directly attributable to women who reject the mamas boy taboo.