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[quote=Anonymous]I’m the only child to my parents who are in their 70s. My parents are physically completely self-sufficient, but are emotionally co-dependent, even more so since COVID. I do keep pretty good boundaries in place that work for the most part. For example, I don’t make myself available on-demand. But if I don’t answer my phone or immediately call back, I get a comment like “don’t have time for us anymore?” Sounds like teasing if you didn’t know our codependent background. I typically DO talk to my parents once every other day for about 10 minutes. I visit every other week. But for whatever reason, I’m terrified to tell my parents we will be going out of the country on a cruise and won’t have cell service nor will we be reachable for a week. I think my mother will panic and think something awful will happen while we are away and they won’t have a way to reach me. I worry they will be lonely. I realize this isn’t healthy for either of us. How can I best prepare my parents and also deal with my own unwarranted guilt?[/quote]

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