When He's Married to Mom: How to Help Mother-Enmeshed Men Open Their Hearts to True Love and Commitment
by Kenneth M. Adams, Ph.D. with Alexander P. Morgan

Excerpt from book - In his unconscious – and sometimes conscious – mind, a mother-enmeshed man is representing his mother’s interests, while his own have become secondary. If he does something he thinks she wouldn’t like, he feels disloyal to her. If he "gets serious" about a woman, suddenly, without understanding why, he is overwhelmed with feelings of fear, anxiety, and guilt. Ambivalence and withdrawal inevitably follow.  * SIGN UP NOW FOR TELECONFERENCE LECTURE ON "UNDERSTANDING ENMESHMENT" - CLICK ON WORKSHOP ICON BELOW *

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Excerpt-Chapter One
Dr Adams' Speaking Engagements and Media Apperances




ADVANCE PRAISE FOR "WHEN HE'S MARRIED TO MOM"

Dr. Ken Adams has done it again. This book on mother-son enmeshment explains not only this too-little understood developmental block, but points the way to liberation. The absence of psycho-babble makes it clear reading for victims and their clinicians.
- John Franklin, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Counseling and Addiction Studies, University of Detroit Mercy

An engaging, clear, and extremely useful examination of this most common of family problems...I do a lot of couples therapy in my practice, and this is one of the most common unhealthy dynamics I see. This book will be enormously helpful.
- John C. Friel, Ph.D., author Adult Children

It is a compelling, insightful, and helpful guide out of the sexual and romantic labyrinths families weave.
- Patrick J. Carnes, Ph.D. , author Out of the Shadows

In When He's Married to Mom, Kenneth Adams ...offers incisive advice about how to develop appropriate boundaries with overly close mothers. Equally important, he helps women who love these men either to develop warm and nurturing relationships or to understand when a man is too locked into enmeshment to be emotionally available.
- Richard B. Gartner, Ph.D., author, Beyond Betrayal and Betrayed as Boys

This book gives clinicians and lay-people a different way of looking at "commitment phobia" and a specific blueprint of what to do about it. Additionally, you leave the reader with solid guidelines of where to get help, engendering hope for a functional future.
- Alexandra Katehakis, Marriage and Family Therapist, Beverly Hills CA