Leaving Your Family 101

It’s Not As Easy As It Looks

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I stopped speaking to my mother completely about a year before she died. Years before that, I had ceased contact with my brother. He and I managed to bury our conflict when our mother died, just long enough to host a funeral and then once again go our separate ways.

I cannot even count the number of people who have told me that what I did was wrong.