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When healthy boundaries feel like abandonment

My adult daughter treats me like her therapist and gets angry when I'm not available to process her problems, but I don't know how to set boundaries without seeming like I don't care.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The fear of appearing unloving prevents the establishment of necessary limits on emotional availability.

Ideas that help explain it
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