As a result, you become comfortable stretching yourself to new expectations. Just knowing that you are qualified, capable and able to make great strides is enough to catapult you into new and uncharted territory. You will gain such confidence in your accomplishments, that you will cease to fear change. You will no longer look upon your old comfort zone as status quo. You will begin to welcome change as a new and refreshing frontier, and the best part is you will no longer be held hostage by procrastination.
Parents fail to let go and try to maintain control of their children's lives well into adulthood.
If a parent is unable to accept the independence of a grown child, there is an unhealthy addiction at work. Each partner brings out the worst in the other and neither is growing. People in addictive relationships get married. They carry into the marriage all the controlling, jealousy, manipulation, obsession, abuse and low self-esteem they had before the marriage. As with any addictive relationship, jealousy, lack of trust, and exclusivity are typical.