Dear Dr. Laura,

I was perusing through my email and read your snippet on this topic, and I will tell you the struggle is real. I had the foresight in high school to recognize my parents were not setting me up to be successful in life, but rather to be co-dependent. I fought tooth and nail against this.

I lived 30 minutes away from my college campus, but I elected to live off campus so I could prepare myself for what being on my own as an adult really entailed. It certainly prepared me for life. I worked too.

My thoughts on this, a bird that learns to fly from the nest is a bird that can soar and make its own nest. When the wind knocks the nest out of the tree, the bird will know how to rebuild its nest and survive.



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