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When adult children move back home without clear boundaries

My adult son moved back home after his breakup and we're all trying to pretend it's temporary but it's been eight months and none of us know how to talk about what's actually happening or what we all need to make this work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A family is living in an arrangement that was meant to be temporary but has become permanent without anyone acknowledging the shift or negotiating what that means.

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