Since getting married and becoming a parent, I’ve come to recognize how unhealthy parts of my childhood were. Even today, my mother oversteps boundaries, insists on interfering with our parenting decisions with our toddler, sends incessant messages asking where I am, if I’m home yet, has my son been fed, and so on and forth. It feels like she cannot treat me as an adult and perhaps still struggles with empty-nest syndrome despite me having left home nearly a decade ago.
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