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When parent-child relationships shift during college transitions

My son is home from his first year of college and we're both trying to navigate this weird space where he's more independent but still lives here sometimes, and we keep having these awkward power struggles over things that didn't used to be issues.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Growth requires renegotiating established dynamics, but neither person knows what the new relationship should look like.

Ideas that help explain it
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