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our best we're not thriving but we're surviving that's how I would

describe my current emotional energy. I'm Stevie and my my excellent co-host

Tessa here has an email that a suggestion for today's episode.

Yes I do.

I would love you to do an episode on how to get on with your parents as an adult.

Crossing from the parent slash child to adult slash adult dynamic can be

difficult and in my family we find ourselves slipping back into the relationship

we had when I was a teenager. We have very different views whether fight or

avoid certain subjects. By the way I moved out when I was 19 and I'm now 28 married

with a house and a cat and it's still an issue. Many thanks Christina. We liked this email very much and thought

oh what a universal subject that is attempting to make the adult-adult dynamic work.

Yes, it's the realization that like, oh my parents are people and they have their own foibles and things and as you get older you go like I'd sort of disagree with

that whereas when you're a kid that you don't well you can't disagree.

No, they're deities they are they're it.

Yeah, well, you just disagree all the time with everything they say because you're a teenager.

And then until the fact that the disagreements just mean nothing and are pointless.

So like, yeah, it it's completely it's a

completely different stage isn't it in in life which will continue and continue and

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