When Love Feels Like Pressure: The Hidden Conflict in Helping Too Much

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Send us a message Episode 222: When Love Feels Like Pressure: The Hidden Conflict in Helping Too Much What if the very thing you are doing to keep the relationship close is the thing creating more distance? As parents, we often help because we love. We give advice, offer solutions, send resources, ask questions, check in, and try to prevent our adult children from making painful mistakes. But in parent and adult child relationships, helping too much can start to feel like pressure, control, or a lack of trust. In this episode, Tina Gosney, Family Conflict Coach and Family Life Educator, continues the conversation on hidden conflict by looking at the kind of conflict that does not look like conflict at all. It looks like love. It looks like concern. It looks like “I’m just trying to help.” But underneath, it may be creating tension, emotional distance, resentment, or shutdown. Listen to this episode if you have ever thought: “I’m only trying to help.” “I can see what they can’t see.” “Why do they push me away when I care so much?” “I feel anxious when they don’t text back.” “I don’t know how to stop fixing, overthinking, or shutting down.” In this episode, you’ll learn: How helping