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How Estranged Mothers Can Find Acceptance and Healing

By Christine Field,

2024-08-07

By Christine Field,

2024-08-07

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reagan

08-11

My mother wrote me a letter cutting off contact when my husband and I decided to raise our children as Christian. (She and my stepfather are members of a religious cult.) I was angry with her for a very long time, but after a lot of prayer, I’ve chosen to forgive, and I’m grateful that we weren’t subjected to her toxicity over the years. I recently became a grandmother, and I can’t imagine not being there for my kids and my grandchildren.

Beth Moore

08-11

This article makes it sound like there’s no reason for the estrangement, and nothing to be done about it. The fact is that people don’t want to be estranged from their parents for trivial reasons. It usually takes some pretty vile behavior on the parents’ part. The parent nearly always knows exactly what drove their kids away, but they play the bewildered victim with friends and relatives. They were good parents, and look at how ungrateful their children are! Never mind that their kids were subjected to full-spectrum abuse, often from both parents, or that those kids had tried very hard to be around them, but always got hurt & and manipulated. That is the reality in many situations of parental estrangement, & all this hand-wringing victimhood can’t change that reality.

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