Week 1 - Doing Life with your Adult Children - Raymond Golf for it

Golf for It (Season 8, Episode 23) highlights how guilt and family expectations can influence adult children long after they've left home. Ray and Robert plan a day of golf but find themselves struggling to enjoy it after Marie makes them feel guilty for not helping her with a household project. Rather than setting healthy boundaries, the brothers become consumed by their mother's approval and expectations. The episode humorously illustrates how love, obligation, guilt, and family roles can become tangled together, making it difficult for adult children to make independent choices. Discussion Point: Are Ray and Robert helping their mother out of love, or out of guilt? This episode explores how unhealthy dependence can develop when parents struggle to let go and adult children struggle to establish boundaries. Where is the line between honoring parents and being controlled by their expectations?