Excerpt for my book submitted for publication entitled: The Launch Code: Loving and Letting Go of Our Adult Children It occurred to me the other
In the End, Love Must Win
My mother passed away on May 2nd of this year (2021) at the age of 100. This past year has been a time of letting go as both my wife's mother and my
Parents – Try Saying Goodbye to Your Young Adult with a Letter
“I am so glad I told my son how much I loved him before I let him go to live with his father.” These were the words of a mother who experienced the
Can Parents Ever Really Let Go?
A mother is helping her son with lawyer fees. The relationship with his girlfriend ended shortly after they had sex, and she did not tell him of her
Parents – Love Them Out. Don’t Kick Them Out.
It is a false dichotomy to assume that you can't usher your young adult out of the house but still love them. Love and letting go are not mutually
Parents who Wonder Where They Went Wrong with their Young Adult Need to Re-Evaluate False Assumptions
Perhaps the most repeated phrase by parents of young adults after "why do they act that way?" is "where did we go wrong?" As a young adult, I heard
Workshop on Letting Go and Launching Your Young Adult
Communicating by listening and sharing from the heart is the currency of intimacy. I recently conducted a workshop for parents of young adults in
To Step In (Support) or Step Out (Let Go) in Launching your Young Adult?
Can you imagine dancing with your young adult son or daughter and they have a very different way of dancing than you? Such an effort to navigate the
Love To Let Go
Ensuring that your young adult knows and feels loved unconditionally is necessary to create the security they need to move out in life on their own.