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When Your Teenager Pulls Away and You Feel Lost

My teenage daughter barely speaks to me anymore and I feel like I am losing the most important relationship in my life and I do not know what I did wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Healthy individuation can feel like abandonment when parental identity becomes enmeshed with child connection.

Ideas that help explain it
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