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When Adult Children Only Contact You for Help or Money

My grown children only call when they need money or help with something and I love them but I feel used and don't know how to change the pattern.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The transformation of parental relationship into purely transactional exchanges reveals a failure of reciprocal emotional connection.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Relationships & Communication?”

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