Guest 1: Joshua Coleman, author of When Parents Hurt.

Topic: Compassionate strategies when you and your grown child don’t get along.

Issues: What happens when people lose the opportunity to be the parents they desperately wanted to be; mourning the loss of a harmonious relationship with a child; maintaining self-esteem through difficult times; strategies for rebuilding relationships or learning to accept what can’t be changed.

Guest 2: Karen Stabiner, editor or The Empty Nest.

Topic: The truth about relationships, love, and freedom after the kids fly the coop.

Issues: How life changes when the kids leave home; changing relationships with young adult children; changing relationships between parents once the kids are gone; differences between the ways mothers and fathers cope with the empty nest.

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