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And I found this book called Doing Life
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with Your Adult Children by Jim Burns
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that I thought was so great. And it
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offers nine principles that will help us
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navigate this new terrain. And
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personally speaking, uh all of my
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children are adults and um I have
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different relationships with all of them
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depending on you know proximity, energy,
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timing of things and their developmental
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stages and how that has changed. So,
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I've got a lot of personal experience
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with this and I can say that when I was
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first a parent of adult children, I did
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not know how to let go of the desire to
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control um because my fear was too
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profound and I just wanted to protect
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them from every potential pitfall that
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maybe they didn't see and and it
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alienates. And so, we want to navigate
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this together and we want to remain a
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resource for them. And so, we've got to
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be thoughtful about how we enter this
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territory. And so, please know that if
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you are a parent entering this phase, it
