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Asking Eric: My 22-year-old daughter’s failure to launch is holding me back from living my life
- Currently, the letter writer lives in an apartment with her 22-year-old daughter who makes no money to pay rent or bills, blocking her move with her boyfriend of seven years as the daughter struggles to find work for about a year and a half.
- Education disruptions left the daughter with a diploma but a stalled transition to independence after a difficult high school disrupted by COVID-related remote learning.
- Refusing to evict, the parent cites compassion as a constraint, saying she cannot evict the daughter onto the streets and is at her 'wits' end' over ensuring the daughter's independence.
- R. Eric Thomas, advice columnist, recommends an honest, adult-to-adult conversation with the daughter to set goals and craft a concrete plan involving training, gig work, or support from relatives.
- Both the writer and advice columnist R. Eric Thomas underscore that 'something needs to change' for the daughter and parent, as highlighted in the Tribune Content Agency column.
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Asking Eric: Adult daughter’s job struggles keep mother from finding happiness
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·Baltimore, United States
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Asking Eric: Moving away from my dependent daughter
Dear Eric: I live in an apartment with my 22-year-old daughter. She had a really bad high school experience that was broken up by Covid, so remote learning didn’t go well either. She eventually got her diploma but since then has not been able to find a job. We are going on about a year and a half now. She applies but doesn’t even get interviews.
·Springfield, United States
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Leaning Left3Leaning Right0Center12Last UpdatedBias Distribution80% Center
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