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Many adult children arrive quietly at a question they never expected to ask:

Is contact with my mother harming me?

Not because of one dramatic event.

But because of accumulation.

Conversations that leave the body tense long after they end.Interactions that require increasing emotional preparation.Attempts at repair that never seem to reach resolution.

The de…