Is Estrangement Always the Parents Fault? | Ep.78

Is Estrangement Always the Parents Fault?
Estrangement is so multifaceted finding a single one-dimensional cause is challenging. However, there are no perfect parents, so the likelihood that you potentially hurt your adult child is possible.
For parents who have been told why their kid has cut ties making amends with your child will help them know you are aware of what happened to them. It alerts them that you value them and are willing to take responsibility.
Empathy towards adult children helps us enlarge our hearts toward them. There is no quick resolution, and estrangement may last longer than you hoped.
Estrangement describes the widespread condition when one family member cuts ties with one or more family members. Are parents to blame when the relationship estranges? Adult children cite abuse, betrayal, and toxic or poor parenting as reasons for cutting ties with their parents. Interviewed parents reported parental alienation, divorce, entitlement, objectionable relationships, sibling jealousy, and favoritism as the most common causes of estrangement. Both sides have little agreement regarding the cause of separation.
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○ Feeling Heartbroken and Alone? How to Pick up the Pieces When You are Estranged:
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○ How Long Does Parent-Child Estrangement Usually Last? (article) → morinholistict...
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○ Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict by Joshua Coleman → amzn.to/3uRh4OH
○ Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them by Karl A. Pillmer → amzn.to/3AVWttQ
○ Family Estrangement: A matter of perspective by Kylies Agllias → amzn.to/3gkBwz0
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ESTRANGEMENT AND ABUSE: When considering the possibility of reconciling with an emotionally and or physically abusive great care is required. Reconciling may only be possible if the abuser is willing to work with a family therapist. When there is abuse, individuals estrange out of necessity and self-preservation. Consider if it is safe to resume a relationship with an abusive family member without evidence that the abuser has changed or takes responsibility for their harmful actions.
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