Dear Queenie,
I’ve been living on my own since I was 18 (about 10 years). I have a good job, my own home, pay my own bills and I’m not in debt, but my mother keeps asking me to move back home with her so she can take care of me.
Queenie, how can I get her to treat me like an independent adult?—Fed-up grown-up child.
Dear Grown-up child,
Your mother may want you to come back to live with her more because she does not want to live alone than because she wants to take care of you. Try to be understanding, see as much of her as you can, but try to make her understand that if she keeps pressuring you this way she will be seeing less of you, not more.
