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Helping or Enabling? When Adult Children Return Home
Helping or Enabling? When Adult Children Return Home
When an adult child moves back home once, many parents see it as temporary. But what happens when it becomes a pattern? In this episode of Straight from the Listener Line: Real Questions, Real Answers, Denise is joined by psychotherapist Joe Nucci to answer a listener's heartfelt question about her adult son, who has returned home five different times. Together they explore the difficult balance between offering support and fostering independence, why curiosity is more helpful than assumption...