Our son moved back home after losing his job and my wife and I keep having the same fight about house rules and expectations — she thinks we should treat him like an adult roommate and I keep slipping back into parent mode and now he's caught in the middle. We all live here but nobody knows what we're doing and it's been four months.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family is struggling to renegotiate relationships and boundaries when independence gets complicated and everyone has to live together again.
“Where Are You with Launching adult children?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.