{ "item_title" : "The Answer Is No", "item_author" : [" Margo Renshaw "], "item_description" : "You already know what you want to say. This is a book of the exact words - forty conversations, with the sentence to use and what happens right after you say it.Somewhere along the way, your yes stopped being read as a decision. Your daughter builds her week around your Wednesday. Your brother is grateful, warmly and repeatedly, and does nothing. The committee assumes. A manager thirty years younger has quietly stopped considering you for anything. And a friend of three decades tells the same joke about you at every table.None of them are being cruel. They are all responding, quite reasonably, to thirty years of evidence. Which is exactly why the conversation is so hard to start.The Answer Is No is a reference book, not an inspirational one. You open it before a conversation, not after. Each of the forty gives you the same six things: who is actually in front of you and what is really at stake, why you have said yes until now, the exact sentence in quotation marks, what happens afterwards including the version where they take it badly, what not to say, and when this conversation should not be had at all.That last part is not a formality. Some of these conversations are wrong for your situation, wrong for this month, or wrong forever. This book says so plainly, and it never treats staying quiet as a failure.WHAT IS INSIDE- Forty conversations, grouped into five fronts: your adult children, your parents and your brothers and sisters, work, the friends you have had for thirty years, and everyone who assumes- The exact sentence for each one, written to be spoken at normal volume by a real person- The rule that holds the whole book together: you say it once, and you do not renegotiate it at eleven o'clock that night- What to do when the response is three weeks of silence, and what to do when you were the one who got it wrong- An honest chapter on the conversations this book will not have, and who to take them to insteadPERFECT FOR- Anyone who has been the reliable one for so long that nobody checks anymore- Women in the second half of life facing a specific conversation this month- Readers who are past being told to believe in themselves and simply want the wording- Anyone caring for a parent while a sibling sends encouragement from a distanceThis book is not medical, legal, or financial advice and does not replace a qualified professional.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/886/909/9798869093837_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "59.99", "online_price" : "59.99", "our_price" : "59.99", "club_price" : "59.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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