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Family estrangement

31 replies

shoppey · 15/02/2026 09:34

Does anyone have any advice on how to cope with your family cutting you out of their life? I never did anything to justify it. It’s been two months now and I’m not sleeping and crying through the night. I now have no immediate family apart from my husband and two kids. I’m worried anything happens to my mother as she’s very old and I don’t get the chance to ever see her again.

They have also cut contact with my children.

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Spendysis · 15/02/2026 14:57

@shoppeydo you think you could talk to your dm. What was your relationship like with her before

shoppey · 15/02/2026 14:42

My mother has cut me off with the other relatives following suit. I said I was sick of always being compared to my brother. Literally that was it. I think I’m feeling it more for my children. It’s so hard and I just don’t know how to cope with it.

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BruFord · 15/02/2026 14:35

Who has cut you out @shoppey? Has your mother done this or are other relatives preventing you from contacting her?

Spendysis · 15/02/2026 14:34

I am in a similar position although it has been a few years nc its still hard and hurtful but it gets easier over time you just learn to accept it

do you know why they have gone nc with you?

shoppey · 15/02/2026 14:31

Yes I’ve been told I am no longer part of their life.

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Mum4589 · 15/02/2026 13:36

Are you sure it is deliberate?