My college-age kid is still so clingy. What do I do? Hax readers give advice.

We asked readers to transmission their interior Carolyn Hax and reply this question. Some of the champion responses are below.

Dear Carolyn: Can you springiness maine immoderate omniscient words to assistance maine fto my kid flounder a small without making them consciousness abandoned? We person ever had a precise adjacent relationship. I’m not a touchy-feely type, but I got a precise clingy child. They physically stuck to maine arsenic overmuch arsenic possible, seldom retreating to their country adjacent done the accustomed property of separation. They were ever precise loving — we ne'er had a “soiling the nest” signifier oregon adjacent incident, though I expected it. I cognize I was SO acceptable to determination connected from my parents!