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Stop enabling your overly dependent adult child
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<blockquote data-quote="Tanya M" data-source="post: 740527" data-attributes="member: 18516"><p><a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/liking-the-child-you-love/201404/stop-enabling-your-overly-dependent-adult-child" target="_blank">https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/liking-the-child-you-love/201404/stop-enabling-your-overly-dependent-adult-child</a></p><p></p><p>Very good article. Much of what is written, most of us already know. Sometimes it's just nice to read it from the perspective of a psychologist.</p><p></p><p>One point that really stood out to me was this:</p><p> <em>While it may feel good for parents to do this, the implicit (or even explicit) message to the child is, “You’re not competent to make it on your own.”</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanya M, post: 740527, member: 18516"] [URL]https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/liking-the-child-you-love/201404/stop-enabling-your-overly-dependent-adult-child[/URL] Very good article. Much of what is written, most of us already know. Sometimes it's just nice to read it from the perspective of a psychologist. One point that really stood out to me was this: [I]While it may feel good for parents to do this, the implicit (or even explicit) message to the child is, “You’re not competent to make it on your own.”[/I] [I] [/I] [/QUOTE]
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