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When adult children move back home and nobody knows the new rules

My adult son moved back home after his divorce and we're all trying to figure out how this works - he needs support but also independence, and my wife and I need our space but also want to help. We're stepping on each other constantly and nobody knows what the boundaries should be.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family system designed for one life stage must rapidly reconfigure for another, but without clear models for how interdependence works when everyone involved is an adult.

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