Parents are cheating their children out of a proper home environment by allowing adult moochers to share the family living space.

“You're not only cheating the people you're enabling, you're cheating the children that need to enjoy that time and space of being center stage.”

External family members should respect parents' rules regarding their children, even if the requests seem minor.

“I think that the external or whatever family should respect that especially if they've said it and they mean it”

Abby believes it is important to not use phones at the dinner table to ensure uninterrupted quality family time.

“the biggest thing I think now in this generation too is no phones at the table even like my dad would get like a work call and he wouldn't answer it because he's like I'm at the dinner table like this is a time that I know it's not going to be interrupted”

Amy Duggar King believes that setting boundaries with toxic family members is necessary to protect one's mental health and safety.

“I've had to just have boundaries and learn, you know, the importance of it in order to keep, you know, my mental health doing, you know, I'm okay. Um keep our marriage strong and keep keep my son safe.”

Family members should respect parental boundaries and rules concerning their children.

“I think like what's important is if parents say we don't want them watching this TV rating or we don't want them blah blah blah I think that the external or whatever family should respect that especially if they've said it and they mean it”

Dr. Honda argues that enmeshment within family relationships is characterized by invasiveness, a lack of respect for personal boundaries, and frequent use of control and guilt-tripping tactics.

“There's no hard criteria for inshment, but it does fit the general criteria in that there's invasiveness, lack of respect of one's boundaries, a lot of guilt tripping, a lot of control, a lot of um assumptions about entitlement to other people's lives or boundary crossings.”

Ramit argues that continuing to provide financial assistance to an adult child who repeatedly fails to repay loans is unsustainable for elderly parents.

“Your son hasn't paid you back repeatedly. He's probably not going to pay you back.”

Janice expresses the view that she and her husband must stop financially supporting their adult son to ensure their own financial future.

“We've got to cut him off. He wants to do this by himself. He wants to be independent and all that. So, we've just got to do it.”