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I appreciate this analysis. I have struggled to understand how adult children could label reasonable family relations from conscientious and loving parents as "co-dependent" or self-serving when parents use restraint to give their adult children 'space' and genuinely desire to see their children become independent and positive. The Acs have a huge need to feel separate and have peer pressures to re-define themselves. They also will not tolerate conflict or adversity. The callousness of the young adults however is really destructive.

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