Your children haven’t lived at home for a number of years. Yet, all of a sudden, they’ve fallen out. They won’t speak, they avoid each other at family events (or don’t show at all), it seems serious.

You know you need to stay out of it, because if you take sides, you’re ultimately going to ostracise one of your children . But equally the temptation to fix, fix, fix is overwhelming – because that’s what you did when they were kids.

And they still need you? Right?

Charlotte Braithwaite , a BACP accredited psychotherapist and coach, told HuffPost UK: “When adult children fall out, it can leave parents feeling helpless, unsure whether to intervene or step back.”

This dilemma is compounded by the blurred lines of parenthood, she added, as there is “no ceremonial moment that defines when

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