toxic parents

Should You Reconcile With a Dying Toxic Parent? What the Bedside Actually Looks Like

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Should You Reconcile With A Dying Toxic Parent

When a parent who hurt you is dying, something happens to the decision you thought you had already made. The estrangement that felt settled last year suddenly feels like a question again. Not because anything has changed between you and them, but because the window for it to change is closing. This is one of … 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