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When parents and adult children can't talk about addiction

My adult daughter and I both know she has a drinking problem but whenever I try to bring it up she shuts down and when she's ready to talk about it I don't know how to respond without making it worse and we're stuck in this cycle of worry and distance.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love and fear are creating a dynamic where the very concern that connects them is also what's keeping them apart.

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