“Parents are people, and any relationship where you live together closely for 18 years is going to involve some deep emotional pain at some point.”

Catherine Roebuck talks with therapist James Christensen in a pre-recorded conversation about the parental influence, parental blindness (and what that means), and thinking of your parents as divine figures versus real, flawed humans.

Key Points

• Compassion for your kids as they become something other than what you may have envisioned

• Compassion for your parents as people rather than you want them to be

• Cruelty in parenting versus poor functioning