Its not that we do not love that little demon-spawn that is throwing a fit, we do love but as Wonka said it does not impact us in a way we too start flopping on the floor kicking and screaming.
I seriously sucked at detaching, its seriously brutal when you are Co-Dependent (Not implying you are .. just that I was) .... but even I figured it out to a point and got better. For me it took viewing my W as a science project ... Observe, take notes, form a hypothesis ... remove my emotions from the equations, hide the buttons she would purposely look to push .. take the saved energy and apply it to myself and GALing.