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When parent-child boundaries blur during adult crises

My adult daughter and I have been getting closer since her divorce but now she calls me with every decision and I want to support her without enabling her dependence on me. We're both confused about where healthy support ends and unhealthy enmeshment begins.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to heal someone you love can become indistinguishable from the need to be needed by them.

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