Stop Enabling. Start Living.: Help for Parents of Highly Dependent Adult Children

When your child is an adult, there is no more parenting work left to do. The time to raise, teach, imbue, educate, and [fill in the blank] is over. It was over long ago. The problem is no longer about "parenting"—it is about how you view your role as a parent. Parents of highly dependent adult children really are good people. I learned this working as a clinician. These clients were caring individuals. They were also exhausted and confused, despite being intelligent and quite wise in other ...