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Category: being ignored
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You may think you're tiptoeing around–"Walking on Eggshells," as Jane Isay, the author of a book by that name, puts it–but that may not be how we come across. My friend Pat, who describes herself as a person who says what she thinks upfront, says that after a day of babysitting–and reporting on events to…
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One of the trickiest parts of parenting adult children is recognizing that we are no longer the center of the family universe, that our grown children are now the sun and stars. We are revolving around them. In her 2008 book Patriotic Grace, Peggy Noonan wrote about politics and our need to face common challenges…
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The grown children stay so focused on their children that it is hard to get an adult conversation going.
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A novelist captures the mixed emotions of having children grow up and leave the nest. Her main character, the owner of hardware store,feels empty without his four sons around. It is a sadness that trails around with him.
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Have you read Olive Kitteredge? Do. It's all about us and our interior lives, emotions and fears–of growing older, of our children moving away, of our spouses dying or worse, losing their minds. For those of us whose grown children live in another city far from us, there's one particular story in Elizabeth Strout's series…
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