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Diane Barth: ...mother/daughter relationships

Nobody Told Me!

Nobody Told Me!

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4.2671 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

As we approach Mother's Day, we explore mother-daughter relationships.  On this episode, we're joined by Diane Barth, a psychotherapist and the author of 'I Know How You Feel: The Joy and Heartbreak of Friendship in Women's Lives'. She writes the blog, 'Off the Couch' for Psychology Today. In addition, her articles have been published in the Clinical Social Work Journal, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalytic Psychology, and other professional journals.  Her website is https://www.dianebarth.net/
 
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0:00.0

Welcome to Nobody Told Me.

0:13.1

And I'm Laura Owens.

0:14.3

And I'm Jan Black.

0:15.8

Our show is a two-generational interview show where we look at things from the perspective of Laura, who's a

0:21.2

millennial, and me, her mother, who's obviously of a different generation. One of our favorite

0:26.1

guests has been psychotherapist Diane Barth, the author of the new book, I Know How You Feel,

0:31.8

The Joy and Heartbreak of Friendship in Women's Lives. When we interviewed Diane about her book,

0:36.9

she said she'd love to talk

0:38.0

with us more about mother-daughter friendships and the like. So she's back with us on the line.

0:42.7

She has questions for us and we have some for her. So Diane, thanks so much for taking time out

0:47.1

to be with us again. Thank you so much for inviting me back. Yeah, we're super excited to have

0:52.8

this conversation because it relates really

0:55.9

well to us and exactly what we're doing. Would you say in your experience that most mothers and

1:02.2

daughters are what you would call friends? Well, actually, that was exactly what I was going to

1:08.7

ask the two of you about. So a lot of women who I spoke with said that their mothers were good friends.

1:16.3

A couple of women told me that their mothers were their best friends.

1:20.9

And a number of women told me that they could never be friends with their mothers.

1:26.4

So one of the questions I wanted to ask you was,

1:30.4

do you all, I mean, you work together as well as being mother and daughter. Do you also consider

1:35.8

yourselves friends? I think I would consider us to be best friends. I definitely think of my mom as my

1:42.1

best friend and I think I really always have. Yeah, yeah, I would definitely say that. But I definitely think of my mom as my best friend, and I think I really always have.

1:45.2

Yeah, yeah, I would definitely say that.

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