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Why helping adult children can feel like hindering them

My adult daughter moved back home after her breakdown and I do not know if I am helping her heal or preventing her from growing up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between protective care and developmental independence becomes acute when adult children regress due to crisis.

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