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Category: divorce
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Best if we had started when our kids were teens but it's never too late to remember that we have moved from being the boss of them to being consultants to our grown children–even as it's hard to act on that in the heat of a "moment." This is what Amy Joyce wrote about in…
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A few weeks ago, I posted an observation from Meghan Leahy on the limits we should impose on ourselves. That is, we should not offer our adult children advice on parenting their children–unless they've asked us for it. In that post, a grandmother was concerned about the chaos of her grandchildren's bedtime. In this post,…
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Their marriage had always been rocky, J tells me. "Constant arguments with moments of pure rage," all of which accelerated as their sons left for college but was in full bloom when they came home. The tension was such that J and G's kids moved out of the home as soon as they could–one taking…
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Whether we’re parting with our home or from our spouse, our grown children feel the pain.
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