How to have a healthy adult relationship with your parents

Life Kit

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Business, Health & Fitness, Education, Kids & Family, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to having an adult relationship with your parents, there's plenty of baggage: the friction of family history or the weight of unsaid expectations. Here's how to set healthy boundaries and understand generational trauma to help you have a grown up relationship with your parents.

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0:00.0	I'm sorry.
0:06.0	Is everybody comfortable?
0:07.0	I am.
0:09.0	This is NPR's life kit.
0:11.0	I'm Andy Tagle, one of the producers of this show.
0:14.0	This is your first official NPR interview parents.
0:19.0	Okay, Papa, I just asked you if you were comfortable and then you switched your ear.
0:23.0	I found that this is more comfortable on the right.
0:26.0	Okay.
0:27.0	Is it because of your favorite ear?
0:29.0	How do we feel?
0:30.0	I feel great.
0:31.0	I'm a little nervous.
0:33.0	I gotta say I'm a little nervous.
0:35.0	And these are my parents, Sylvia and Richard Tagle.
0:38.0	Or as I know them, Mama and Pops.
0:42.0	They're here to talk about our relationship since I've become an adult.
0:46.0	Which I'm very lucky to say is a great one.
0:50.0	Through every stage of life, my parents have been there for me and my sister.
0:54.0	Be it a test, a tournament or a podcast episode.
0:58.0	They are loving and kind and endlessly supportive.
1:03.0	If not without some gentle teasing and mild interrogation along the way.
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