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When Someone Changes the Rules of Connection Late in Life

My father never showed emotion growing up and now that he is sick he keeps reaching for my hand and I do not know how to receive this from him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unexpected intimacy from someone who was previously distant can feel both healing and destabilizing.

Ideas that help explain it
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