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What Happens In Your Brain When Your Child Stops Needing You, According To Experts

MoMo Productions/Getty ImagesOne of the most beautiful and simultaneously heartbreaking things about motherhood is watching the child you created — that you built inside of your own body, spun from your very cells — learn to live in the world without you. It starts small. One day, they can suddenly reach the cereal shelf themselves. Or they don’t ask you for help with their homework. Then the milestones get bigger and bigger until you’re staring down the driveway as they pull off, headed to destination unknown with their friends.Somewhere in your chest, a tiny alarm goes off: The person who’s...