This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. Navigating the parent-adult child relationship can be ...

According to a study from Motivation and Emotion, infantilization in these subtle moments can spark low self-esteem, ...

It’s natural for parents to experience a disconnect with their adult children when they leave home and start their own lives, but that doesn’t make it easy. With new expectations, experiences, ...

Disrespect is a difficult pill to swallow, especially when it comes from adult children. Parenting is tough, and although good parents do their best, there are always things they wish they could have ...

If your love and caring have morphed into rescuing, loaning, and fixing for your adult child, you are far from alone. What starts out as helping turns into enabling. This perpetuates a cycle of ...

Based on my years of coaching parents of entitled adult children, I see the emotional toll parents pay when anticipating the next crisis that pops up on their text messages or literally on their ...

Dear Annie: I am a 60-year-old divorced mom with three grown children in their 30s. I have spent most of my adult life putting my family first, especially after my marriage ended more than a decade ...

Yet, they often find it impossible to meet their basic needs in ways that feel second nature to adults who were raised differently. "People who grow up entitled are accustomed to people doing things ...