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When your adult child won't launch and you're enabling them

My 28-year-old son lives in my basement and spends most days playing video games while I work two jobs to keep us afloat and I do not know how to make him leave without destroying our relationship.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The fierce love that once protected a child now imprisons both parent and adult child in a cycle of dependence that serves neither.

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