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[quote=Anonymous]Your question is: “How can I get my middle-aged-or-older parents to completely change how they interact with me?” You can’t. Give up. Step one is to mourn the imaginary hypothetical parents you are hanging onto who will be involved and supportive without overstepping. You don’t have those parents, so Look for other people who can for fill that role: in-laws, aunts or uncles, friends and coworkers, But give up on the idea that you were going to change your parents into those people. Step two is to come up with a realistic version of what you want your relationship with them to be like. Are there other parts of this relationship what you like and value? What are they? How can you best preserve those things while still setting and enforcing boundaries around the things that you need to change? Would it be easier for you to cut your parents off for long periods of time? Or do you still want them involved Day-to-day and how do you envision that working?[/quote]
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