Dear LFTP: anger and living with grandmother
- What can I do about my anger and constant fighting with my grandmother, short of moving out?
Dan reads the Dear LFTP letter: a twenty-something who has lived with their grandmother (who raised them from age three) for 22 years; they used to be best friends but now fight constantly with name-calling and disrespect, and the writer admits an anger problem but doesn't know how to start fixing it short of moving out. The hosts converge: it's time to move out — two adults, one household, and the anger is the writer's issue, not grandma's. "You should be adding to grandma, not taking away from her"; if there's a genuine care need, set boundaries and separate lives instead.
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