When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us: Letting Go of Their Problems, Loving Them Anyway, and Getting on with Our Lives Cards or at least thought they

or at least thought they did…before the picket line

lost touch with his family when they bought into the promises of postwar Pyongyang and relocated to the DPRK

So begins a strange weekly meeting where Soraya dictates and Mrs

and even though she’s been struggling to manage her chronic anxiety

When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us: Letting Go of Their Problems, Loving Them Anyway, and Getting on with Our Lives Cards or at least thought theyHow do parents cope when their adult children struggle to launch, battle depression or addiction, or return home unable to face independence? With empathy and insight, When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us confronts the painful gap between parental hopes and the reality of adultolescents who are stuck, struggling, or spiraling. In this groundbreaking book, a social psychologist whos been chronicling the lives of American families for over two decades