What happens when the children you raised become adults with lives, homes, marriages, schedules, and decisions of their own?
In this episode of Equipped To Be, Connie Albers talks about one of the tender parts of parenting that few people prepare us for: learning how to let our children go without losing the relationship.
Parents spend years guiding, teaching, correcting, sacrificing, and showing up. But as children grow into adults, the relationship has to change. We are still their parents, but we are no longer parenting them in the same way.
Connie shares what it looks like to move from control to connection, from correction to counsel, and from being needed every day to being trusted over time. She also helps parents understand the difference between being included and expecting access, especially when adult children marry and begin building their own family unit.
If you are raising children now, this conversation will help you think about the kind of relationship you are building for the future. And if your children are already grown, this episode will encourage you to release them with grace while continuing to love them well.
Letting go does not mean losing them. Sometimes, it is the very thing that gives the relationship room to grow.
Read the listener notes with links here: Letting Adult Children Go Without Losing Them
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