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When physical closeness doesn't guarantee emotional connection

My teenage son gives me one-word answers to everything and I feel like I am losing him even though we live in the same house.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Proximity creates opportunity, not intimacy; the heart opens through acceptance, not pursuit.

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