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When Your Adult Child Uses You as Emotional Support But Ignores Your Guidance

My adult daughter tells me everything about her relationship problems but never takes my advice and I'm starting to feel frustrated and used.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The role of listener conflicts with the desire to be helpful, creating resentment about emotional labor.

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