Beyond the Bond: Insights Into Navigating the Challenges of Being or Raising a Twin

Are you tired of being compared to your twin? Does your more outgoing twin sister always get her way while your wishes are ignored? Why do disagreements with your twin brother turn into huge fights? Are you the exasperated parent of twins who suddenly aren't getting along? Are you upset that your wife trusts her twin sister more than she trusts you?

Many people romanticize the bond between twins. So it's no surprise that when twins experience conflict, resentment, or jealousy, they think something is wrong with them. After all, aren't twins supposed to be best friends and soul mates forever?In reality, twins often experience growing pains and developmental challenges uniquely relevant to their twinhood.

Whether you're a twin, the parent of twins, or the partner or spouse of a twin, you'll find helpful insights and strategies in this book. Beyond the Bond walks twins and their loved ones through sensitive issues so that twins can navigate their individual emotional well-being without sacrificing the twin attachment.

Joan A. Friedman, PhD, is a gifted psychotherapist who has devoted many years of her professional career to educating twins and their families about twins' emotional needs. Having worked through her own twinship challenges and parented her fraternal twin sons, she is a definitive expert on twin development.

She is the author of Emotionally Healthy Twins: A New Philosophy for Parenting Two Unique Children, The Same but Different: How Twins Can Live, Love, and Learn to Be Individuals, and Twins in Session: Case Histories in Treating Twinship Issues. She has spoken to and consulted with culturally diverse groups of twins around the world. Dr. Friedman's work focuses on issues that adult twins confront as they adjust to life as singletons after having been raised as twins.