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How families navigate adult children moving back home

My adult son moved back home after his divorce and we're all trying to navigate him being a grown man who needs support but also my husband and I having our own rhythm and space. None of us know what the boundaries should be and we're all walking on eggshells trying not to make it weird.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The return to an old structure with new identities creates a liminal space where everyone's role is unclear.

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