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Scenario

How to Respond When Your Child Expresses Romantic Attachment

My five-year-old keeps asking if he can marry me when he grows up and my mother-in-law laughs but it makes me deeply uncomfortable.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A parent navigates the delicate boundary between normal developmental attachment and the need to establish appropriate relationship models.

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