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Ashley, welcome to the program.

Hi, good morning. I'm a 46 year old single woman. I have some rescue dogs.

No kids. And my question is, what's an adult child's obligation as far as finance and time and an emotional relationship to your parent as they get older when there was unresolved neglect and abuse from when you were a child?

That was that was almost a paragraph.

I think I got lost. I'm starting from the beginning in small bits. Give me smaller bits.

Okay, my father and mother divorced when I was a child. He got remarried when I was about five.

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