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When your adult child demands excessive emotional availability

My 35-year-old daughter still expects me to remember her friends' birthdays and call her every morning and I feel suffocated by her need for constant connection.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intimacy without boundaries becomes a prison where love transforms into obligation and connection becomes consumption.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Adult relationships with adult children?”

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