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It doesn't come loudly. It comes at 2 am, or in the middle of a drive, or right after a hard conversation.

Did I cause this?

When your young adult is struggling to stand on their own — when independence keeps getting pushed further and further out — the mind goes looking for reasons. And somehow, it almost always lands on you.

This is one of the loneliest places a parent can sit. Too tangled to explain to most people. Too personal to post about. So you carry it quietly and hope the feeling passes.

It usually doesn't pass. It just waits.

Somewhere along the way, you stopped being a person and became a function.

Not all at once. Gradually.

First, you were a parent who happened to be tired. Then, a parent who happened to have no time. Then a parent with no evenings, no plans of your own, no space in the day that wasn't already occupied by someone else's needs.

Now, if someone asked what you actually wanted — just for you — you're not sure you'd know how to answer.

When a young adult is still heavily dependent on you, there's a slow erosion that happens. Not dramatic. Not loud. Just you, becoming less and less of yourself, in small daily increments that each seemed reasonable at the time.

Most parents don't notice until they're quite far down the road.

You didn't lose yourself all at once.

You gave yourself away, one small thing at a time, in the name of love.

If you want a deeper look at why this happens — and how parents begin shifting it without abandoning their child — I put together a free guide here:
https://pages.myschoolnurse.co/failure-to-launch-adult-child-guide