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INTERVIEW – Maintaining a peaceful relationship with your parents is not always easy. Clinical psychologist Aline Nativl Id Hammu explains what is at stake in the parent-child bond in adulthood.
Being part of the same family is not enough to establish a good relationship. This is evidenced by Christmas celebrations and the meeting with parents, which some people dread. “You never call me,” “Adopt a dog? “It’s not really the right time”; “Are you sure you want to enroll your children in this school?” Where do these tensions between parents and children come from in adulthood? Is it the feeling of being infantilized, of being judged, or is it more complicated than that? How does the relationship between parent and child change as the latter becomes an adult? Aline Nativel Id Hammou, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist (1), analyzes what is at stake in family dynamics and gives her advice.
Madame Figaro: Is this tension inevitable?
Aline Nativel Id Hammou. Yes, simply because in any relationship we cannot agree on everything. However, when we become adults, we no longer share the same opinions, ideas…
Source: Le Figaro
