3 Things To Consider If You Don’t Know What Happened

We’re grown. Our kids are grown. Some perspective.

I have joined and left lots of parent estrangement groups calling themselves support groups. For the most part, the parents in them are there to find help. They are in pain. They don’t have the tools to find their way back to a healthy relationship with their adult children or they feel blindsided and say they don’t know how it all happened.

Today I’m writing to you if you’re among the many estranged parents who feel blindsided by the estrangement and I’m sending you three things to consider in your situation. These may be spot on, they may be a bit relatable, they might be so outside your experience you cannot tell if they apply to your situation. So all I ask is for you to consider whether any of these three things might be part of the reasons your child has chosen to estrange from you.

There is growth for us in this pain for our own lives, for our own peace of mind.