You can't "let go". You can't "detach with love". You can't let them "hit bottom". You can't seem to implement the strategies you have learned when you are faced with your adult child's chaos and anxiety. When you try to do this, it makes you physically and emotionally ill, and the anxiety and fear becomes unbearable.
Mary Crocker Cook, Afraid to Let Go. for Parents of Adult Addicts and Alcoholics
addiction, adult-children, parenting, parents-of-addicts