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When parents and adult children both struggle with healthy attachment

My adult daughter and I are both recovering from codependent relationships and trying to build healthier boundaries with each other, but we keep swinging between being too distant and too involved, and neither of us seems to know what secure attachment actually looks like between a parent and grown child.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Breaking generational patterns requires learning new relational skills that neither person has experienced or witnessed before.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Attachment in adult relationships?”

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