E151: Boundaries, Letting Go, and Becoming Friends With Your Adult Children

About this episode

Jill Lillard discusses maintaining close relationships with adult children while setting healthy boundaries.

How do you maintain a close relationship with your adult children while still setting healthy boundaries? In Episode 151 Jill Lillard explores one of the biggest transitions parents face as their children grow up. Parenting doesn’t end when kids become adults, but the relationship does change. That shift often raises new questions about expectations, responsibility, and how to stay connected without trying to control. In this final episode of the Adult Children series, Jill reflects on what h...

People in this episode

Host: Jill Lillard

Topics covered

• boundaries
• adult children
• parenting
• relationships
• expectations

Keywords

• boundaries
• adult children
• parenting
• relationships
• expectations
• responsibility
• connection

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