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When parent-adult child relationships get stuck in old patterns

My adult daughter and I keep having the same fight about her life choices and I can see that I'm becoming the kind of mother I swore I wouldn't be, but I also genuinely worry about her and neither of us knows how to break this cycle we're stuck in.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who love each other are trapped in roles that no longer serve them, but changing feels like losing something essential about who they are to each other.

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