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Category: being ignored
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What could be more painful than a deep and long-lasting rift with one's adult child? How does one bridge that gap? Joshua Coleman, a practicing psychologist who also researches estrangement preaches reconciliation. A key point he makes for parents in search of such a solution is for the parent to step up and make amends:…
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The question does not call for a "man bites dog" answer. Most of our adult children who are raising their own children do not want to be bombarded with our parenting advice. Not because our advice has no value. It's because they no longer want to be parented. They're the parents now! They'll ask if…
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Our adorable children. Sometimes it's hard to realize they're adults now. They may not be quite as cuddly as they were when they were three years old but more to the point, they probably don't want us hovering over them or offering advice. Here are two tales that tell you what I'm talking about–plus bonus…
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We've all been there–gotten annoyed at our grown children. Maybe it was for not returning our text promptly, or forgetting their sister's birthday, or taking time off when they should have been buckling down at work. Or just plain not doing things the way we have always done them. Whatever. However much we love them,…
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The comforting way to put it is that our grown kids need space. But the far end of that need can play out in a way that translates into "they don't want us around." In answer to a reader's complaint that her daughter won't take her phone calls, discourages her from visiting (even though she's…
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He's got an hilariously snarky point of view. Choire Sicha, the NYTimes Styles desk editor who is working his way through a three-month stint as the newspaper's "Work Friend," columnist, admits that he has only two to four ideas about life and that none of them are particularly original. That said, he notes that "Somehow…
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It may be unintentional but it hurts when our grown children leave us feeling we’re not a part of their family.
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