adult children

Parents of Estranged Adult Children: The Grief No One Sends a Card For

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Parents Of Estranged Adult Children

The grief that comes with being estranged from an adult child is one of the loneliest kinds of loss I encountered across two decades of hospice work. It does not have a name in the way that bereavement does. There is no card for it, no ritual, no established language for what a parent carries … Read more

How to Deal With a Toxic Parent When You Are Already an Adult

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How To Deal With A Toxic Parent

Most advice about dealing with a toxic parent stops at the practical: set limits, protect your energy, consider therapy, repeat as needed. Those tools are real and worth knowing. But they manage the relationship from the outside without touching the harder thing underneath, which is what to do with the part of you still waiting … Read more