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When conversations with your adult child become emotional burdens

My 23-year-old constantly tells me about her problems but gets furious when I suggest solutions and I am starting to dread her phone calls.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The transformation of parent-child communication from connection to obligation when emotional support becomes one-sided and unproductive.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Launching adult children?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.