Oceans Apart will help you understand and enhance your long distance family relationships. In this book you will discover how to:
Maintain close, loving ties with family members who live far away ***
Plan a successful visit ***
Keep in touch between visits ***
Set aside meaningful one-on-one time with individual family members *** Manage tension and conflict from afar and during a visit *** Cope with illness and death at a distance *** Maintain ties with grandchildren *** Bridge the gap between you and your long-distance siblings, nieces and nephews *** Deal with cultural and language differences *** Use technology effectively to stay in close touch *** and much much more!
The ease of travel today and the need to work or study far from home, from parents, siblings, and other family members, have raised many psychological, economic, emotional, communication, and other problems, unknown or not so dire in prior times. Rochel U. Berman, who has shown remarkable sensitivities in her 2006 award winning volume Dignity Beyond Death, addresses these and related issues with similar well-considered feelings and insights. Berman knows the issues of separation from family. She … more