E150: Parent to Child to Adult-to-Adult: Changing the Relationship

About this episode

Jill Lillard discusses the evolving relationship between parents and their adult children, highlighting the natural shifts that occur as children grow up.

Why does the relationship with your adult children sometimes feel tense or unclear? Many parents expect the relationship with their kids to stay mostly the same as they grow up. But adulthood changes the structure. What worked when they were younger no longer fits the same way. In this episode of The Happiest Lives Podcast, Jill Lillard walks through the natural shift that happens between parents and adult children. Instead of one lifelong dynamic, the relationship moves through stages as rol...

People in this episode

Host: Jill Lillard

Topics covered

• parenting
• adult relationships
• family dynamics
• communication
• personal growth

Keywords

• adult children
• parenting
• relationship dynamics
• communication
• family

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