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How to Navigate Your Teen's Emotional Distance and Contempt

My teenager barely speaks to me anymore and when they do it's with this tone like I'm the stupidest person alive and I don't know what I did wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The natural process of adolescent individuation feels like personal rejection and failure as a parent.

Ideas that help explain it
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