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When your adult child reframes your family through therapy

My 26-year-old son started therapy and now he talks about boundaries and says our family is enmeshed and dysfunctional and I do not recognize the loving home I thought I created in his descriptions.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The disorienting experience of having your parenting and family narrative challenged by your child's therapeutic insights and new psychological vocabulary.

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“Where Are You with Launching adult children?”

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