When Your Adult Child Distances Themselves
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Carla, age 38, is a helpful and caring adult daughter. She lives five miles from her parents and assists her mother with caregiving for her father, who suffers from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. She scaled back her hours at work and made arrangements for aftercare for her children so she could stay with her father longer. She goes above and beyond to make sure he is comfortable,
content, well-fed, and gets where he needs to be.
On the other hand, Carla’s younger sister, Michelle, age 29, used to be close with her parents and sister. But these days, she doesn’t return her family’s calls. Her mother or sister might occasionally get a text, but it’s usually only if Michelle needs something.
Michelle is convinced that her parents want her to drop everything to help them with caregiving like her sister, that they dislike her new boyfriend, and that they call way too often and nag about her life choices. In reality, for her parents, although some help would be nice, they just want some contact to know that she is alive and well.
"Why won’t she talk to us? Where did we go wrong? How can she do this when her father is suffering from dementia?" her mother often wonders.
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