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“We cannot change another person. We can only change ourselves and how we will respond to the good and bad behavior of our loved ones, who continue to cause us to live in daily pain.”

Change Adult Children

Book:Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

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“Restoring ruined dreams and reclaiming wasted years is what God does best.”

Redemption Restoration

Book:Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

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“I was so open-minded, my brain slipped out.”

Excuses Open Mindedness

Book:Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

“Only when our adult children are forced to face the consequences of their own actions - their own choices - will it finally begin to sink in how deep their patterns of dependence and avoidance have become. And only then will we as parents be able to take the next step to real healing, forever ending our enabling habits and behaviors.”

Consequences Enabling Adult Children Codependence

Book:Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

“We must stop trying to change their behaviors by making choices for them and by shielding them from the painful consequences of their actions or inaction. We cannot change them. ... Setting our adult children free to live the lives God intended them to live is not abandonment - even if it means setting them free during a time of severe trial and tribulation in their lives.”

Adult Children Codependence

Book:Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

“What will we do when we stop living our adult children's lives for them? We will start living our own.”

Adult Children Codependence

Book:Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

“almost all parents of dysfunctional adult children have to some extent become enablers.”

Enabling Dysfunction Codepency

Book:Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

“Helping is doing something for someone that he is not capable of doing himself. Enabling is doing for someone what he could and should be doing for himself. ...Simply, enabling creates an atmosphere in which our adult children can comfortably continue their unacceptable behavior.”

Enabling Codependency Adult Children

Book:Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

“...for many parents in pain, if you want to move forward, you'll have to first look backward.”

Parenting Challenges

Book:Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents

Source: Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children: Six Steps to Hope and Healing for Struggling Parents