My adult children both moved back home during the pandemic and now one has a stable job and could move out but hasn't and the other is still figuring things out and we're all stepping on each other and nobody wants to be the one to say this isn't working anymore. We love having them close but we also need our space back and they probably need theirs too but we're all being too polite about it.
More people experience this than they realize.
Multi-generational households test whether love can navigate the competing needs for both connection and independence.
“Where Are You with Adult relationships with adult children?”
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