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When your child's independence triggers time grief

My teenage daughter barely talks to me anymore and I know this is normal but I can feel our time together shrinking and I don't know how to slow it down.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You're mourning the end of one phase of relationship instead of welcoming the beginning of the next.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Stoic memento mori — remember you will die?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.