Parenting
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2 days agoPsychology suggests that adult children who are the most loyal to their parents in late life are often the ones who never quite became close to them - the loyalty is the substitute for the closeness that didn't form, and the visits, the calls, the careful attention are sometimes a daughter's way of paying for an intimacy that was supposed to have been included - Silicon Canals
Devotion that looks close can function as payment for intimacy that never formed, with adult children doing relational labor to cover emotional distance.