When Family Ties Break: Understanding Parent-Child Estrangement
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5 min readMar 8
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Sometimes the cause of the estrangement lies somewhere in that vast desert between where the complexities of each person’s personalities, histories, challenges, or genetics ping-pong back and forth off the other’s, and conflict operates less as cause and effect and more like a feedback loop, endlessly amplifying the worst instincts of the parent, adult child, or anyone else who…
