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When your child pulls away and you don't know how to respond

My teenage daughter won't talk to me anymore and I know I need to give her space but I'm terrified I'm losing her forever.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Parental love can become possessive attachment that paradoxically pushes away the very connection it desperately seeks to maintain.

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