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01/17/2026

“How will I feel when my mom dies?” is a question I’m often asked by adult children in my work as a therapist who specializes in the mother wound.

The honest answer is that there is no single answer. Some people feel relief or contentment when a harmful or abusive mother dies. Others feel deep grief for the mother they never had. Many experience both simultaneously. While none of us can know exactly what that moment will bring, I do know this: however you feel will be valid.

01/15/2026

Estranged parents will be quick to say that “adult children should go no-contact when there was ACTUAL abuse,” and then proceed to define “abuse” as a few steps past what they did.

“Of course they should estrange if they were beaten or had SA, but what I did wasn’t harmful at all! It must be those pesky therapists!”

01/13/2026

Making the decision to become a parent and then thinking that unconsenting child somehow owes you a relationship with them for the rest of your life is the definition of entitled.

01/11/2026

Estrangement doesn’t happen because a parent said “no.”
It happens when a parent keeps saying no to accountability, repair, and change.

01/08/2026

“It goes both ways,” says the one who chose the other’s name.

“It goes both ways,” says the one who drove an infant home from the hospital.

“It goes both ways,” says the one who touted, “I’m the parent, you’re the child.”

“It goes both ways,” says the one who was never small, powerless, or dependent in the relationship.

“It goes both ways,” says the one who could leave without sacrificing safety, shelter, or survival.

01/06/2026

If this is how you treat your kids in public, the rest of us can only imagine how you treated them in private.

It’s almost like hating your kids pushes them away…

01/05/2026

That’s the part the estranged parents don’t want to talk about.

Adult Chid: [sets boundary]
Estranged parent: [ignores boundary]
Adult child: [restates boundary]
Estranged parent: [side-steps boundary]
Adult child: [explains boundary]
Estranged parent: [pole-vaults boundary]
Adult child: “I’m tired of this” [Walks away]
Estranged parent: “the estrangement just came out of nowhere!!!”

01/02/2026

Estranged parents are experts at avoiding accountability.

If only we knew why so many adult children are going no-contact…

What other non-apologies have you heard?

12/30/2025

It’s profoundly troubling how many parents think they have the right to control what their children believe.

12/28/2025

Estranged parent to others: I’ve apologized over and over. I don’t know what their problem is. They just can’t forgive.

Meanwhile their apology: [see picture above]

12/27/2025

It’s almost like disregarding boundaries harms relationships. A post on social media doesn’t create the estrangement, a trend doesn’t create the estrangement, a therapist doesn’t create the estrangement.

Estrangement happens when your presence is more hurtful than your absence.

12/24/2025

Reminder: A gift is for the person who is receiving it.

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