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Why adult children drift away from close families

All three of my kids live within twenty minutes of me but I see them maybe once a month and I do not understand how we went from being so close to feeling like polite strangers.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The painful discovery that physical proximity cannot guarantee emotional intimacy as adult children create their own lives and identities.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Launching adult children?”

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