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Very good step forward, OP. I would limit contact unobtrusively. Only pick up the phone every once in a while, don't respond to every single email/text, call once a week right before you need to pick your kids, or whatever you're comfortable with.

I was in your shoes 8 years ago. Very naive and confiding, and very young for my age. DH and I nearly divorced and I made the mistake of telling my parents about all the details, and to this day I feel they're just waiting for us to divorce. DC1 and I were extremely ill in the middle of it, I lost my job, and I'm sure everyone around me just saw me as a complete failure!

However, you don't learn unless you make mistakes, right? So now I have grown up, keep my opinions to myself, communicate constructively, am more authoritative, and don't let anyone push me around.

It's hard to transition to that comforting feeling of being able to confide unreservedly in loved ones to keeping things back. But it's a necessary step towards adulthood. Soon you will be managing your elderly parents' affairs as they reach the end of their life. It's all an evolving relationship, and you have to model it for your kids.

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