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When love requires accepting distance

My adult children live across the country and they are building lives I barely understand and I wonder if being a good parent means letting them become strangers.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Successful parenting can paradoxically result in children who no longer need the relationship that created them, transforming achievement into a form of loss.

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