This is just something I needed read right now.
Trigger added because it is a difficult thing to experience whehter you are th parent or the child. Or you were the child that became the parent of a child just like yourself. Tough love IS tough.

Anyway, it helped me to read it now while my child is struggling to do what he knows he needs to do to be independent, and while I am rooting for him to make and enjoy the triumph and rewards and freedoms that come with that.

http://www.tellinitlikeitis.net/2010...the-house.html