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When geographic closeness complicates family relationships

My adult daughter and I both moved to the same city to be closer to each other, but we're finding it harder to navigate boundaries around time and space and involvement in each other's lives than we expected.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical proximity has intensified emotional dynamics that were easier to manage from a distance.

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