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  "tags": [
    "Evergreen",
    "Health",
    "Homelife",
    "Lifestyle",
    "Mental Health",
    "adult children close to parents",
    "conditional parental love",
    "family",
    "Mental health",
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  "textContent": "BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Picture two parents, both devoted. Both called every Sunday. Both showed up for birthdays, sent money when things got hard, and made every visible effort. One of them has an adult child who calls with the hard stuff: the job that fell apart, the relationship that ended badly, the […]\n\nThe post The parenting habit that builds lifelong closeness with adult children first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.",
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