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Category: weddings
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We are at our peril when we try to control our adult children and play the starring role in their lives.
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A recent story in a Canadian newspaper touched a lot of buttons for parents of adult children, and particularly of “only children.” The story is the adult child’s complaint about the tight controls parents exert, even as the child approaches marriage. The writer, an only child who is marrying an only child, says she noticed…