Overly attached?

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Hello,
I was just wondering if it is normal for an adult to be attached to a 9 year old child?

She is my kind of step sister (my mum and her dad are just dating, but I consider her a step-sister) so every time she has to go home she always gets upset sometimes to the point of crying on my shoulder.

One time she came over, when I had to take her home she held onto the couch and cried, so I left her to calm down. When I came back to check on her she had locked herself in her room.

She has even said when she gets home sometimes she cries, wanting to come back. When they leave I feel so alone and wish she would come back, then sometimes I start crying, and I'm 20.

This could go on and on, but I just want to know if it's normal for us to be so attached to each other, where we just want to be with each other.

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  • Dad
    8 years ago

    Parental attachment to a child is normal and natural and generally most experience it.
    When others who are not a child's parent feel this attachment (could be due to safety concerns and state of happiness of the child). That can cause confusion and mixed emotions.
    You are best to speak openly to the child's parents to remove any unwarranted anxieties that their child is in torment, when in fact children change their emotion at the drop of a hat :)

    Is that what you meant?

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    • Beep_Beep
      8 years ago

      Oh no, here we go again. *shakes head*

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  • thegypsysailor
    8 years ago

    I guess it all depends on what you mean by be together and why she doesn't like it at her real home.

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