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When parent-teen relationships get stuck in conflict cycles

My teenage daughter and I used to be close but now every conversation turns into a fight about her choices and I can see her pulling away from me. We both want to connect but we've gotten stuck in this pattern where I worry and she rebels and neither of us knows how to break the cycle.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love is being expressed through control and resistance, creating the very distance both people fear most.

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