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What to Do When Adult Children Pull Away Because You Keep Parenting Them

There is a particular heartbreak that parents experience as their children grow older. It's a difficult, hard-to-define, push-pull kind of feeling that's a mixture of happiness, sadness, pride, and nagging nostalgia.

What to Do When Adult Children Pull Away Because You Keep Parenting Them

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There is a particular heartbreak that parents experience as their children grow older.

It's a difficult, hard-to-define, push-pull kind of feeling that's a mixture of happiness, sadness, pride, and nagging nostalgia.

You raised them, worried about them, listened, taught, guided, cried, laughed, and spent decades helping them to become capable adults...

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There is a particular heartbreak that parents experience as their children grow older. It's a difficult, hard-to-define, push-pull kind of feeling that's a mixture of happiness, sadness, pride, and nagging nostalgia. You raised them, worried about them, listened, taught, guided, cried, laughed, and spent decades helping them to become capable adults...

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