'I came to realize that I don’t owe my parents anything — but I do owe myself the chance to be happy and stable.'
: If you're someone who is estranged from your parent, what happened that caused it? In asking this, the hope is that by providing a platform to share real-life experiences from people who have been through it, we can help further the conversation, provide an outlet, and offer starter resources. Here are some of the stories people shared."I have been estranged from my parents for six years.
"She was physically and emotionally abusive and I never forgave her. She also put her boyfriends before us. As an adult, when I was pregnant with my first child, my mom and I were fighting pretty badly. I just vented and she still saw no wrong. As a mother, I cannot imagine treating my child like she treated my brother and me. As for my dad, he was absent and I used to idolize him. But he just bought our love with gifts.
It will be 12 years this November since I’ve seen or spoken a word to her. I’m the spitting image of her, however, so I see her every time I look in the mirror. I’m terrified of inadvertently being a horrible mother, as she was, so I made the decision to not have children as a result. I’m nearly 40 now and it’s challenging every single day.
"Not one mention of me or my husband. No show of concern for us or how we’ve been doing. When I confronted him about it he said I’d had my chance to talk about it when it happened but since I didn’t tell him then he wasn’t interested in talking about it now. That was it. I was done putting up with his narcissism since he couldn’t be bothered to even pretend to care about me. Now that the due date is coming up he’s been trying to reach out through my husband and sending cards.
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