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Why Visiting Aging Parents Can Feel Like Emotional Time Travel

My parents are getting older and I know I should spend more time with them but every visit feels like stepping back into a childhood where nothing I did was ever good enough.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The adult self struggles to protect against patterns that the child self internalized as truth.

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