title: Cutting the Cord: Eight Secrets to Coping When Your Grown Kid Goes Sideways
author: L.G. Mansfield
description: Across America, countless young adults are holding their parents hostage. At a time when they should be taking their places in the world, startling numbers of them are incapable of holding a job, paying their bills, or staying clean and sober. If you are the parent of such a grown kid, you may be feeling hurt, confused, and emotionally captive. Cutting the Cord will help free you by teaching you the eight coping secrets used by parents who have been where you are now and have come to a place of acceptance and healing. You'll gain a perspective that will help guide you from the role of caretaker to consultant to your grown kid. Armed with this wisdom, you can break loose from your feelings of guilt and disenchantment and embrace a sense of hope for the future.
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  Copyright © 2018 J.D. Light
  
  
  Cover Art by [www.coversbyjess.com](http://www.coversbyjess.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER ONE
  
  
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  "This can't be happening."
  
  
  "What am I supposed to do with a toddler as a mate?"
  
  
  These were the things playing around in my head as I climbed onto the eighteen
  inch railing of the bridge and took a deep calming breath while pulling one
  leg up so the flat of my foot was resting against the inside of my other
  thigh, hitting tree pose.
  
  
  Yoga was something I'd had to start in high school when it became obvious I
  was too strong due to my leopard heritage, to beat up every asshole that
  picked on Ridley. If I hadn't found a way to calm myself and my anger, I'd
  have ended up killing some young, dumb human.
  
  
  "I'm not going into the fucking babysitting business!"
  
  
  That last one had been mumbled to my alpha, Flynn, when Thompsyn thought I was
  out of earshot just before my ma