Deborah Tannen & Mom

In her 1990 best-seller, You Just Don’t Understand, Deborah Tannen discusses communication problems between men and women resulting from their different uses of language and conversations. (John Gray’s 1992 book, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus strikes me as a watered down embodiment of Tannen’s work). Having read Tannen’s book (actually, I have read three ofContinue