Really triggering segment on Radio 2 today on family estrangement, did anyone else hear it? Anyone affected by it.

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Was driving between work appts today listening to Radio 2 and Jeremy Vine was on with a segment about King Charles' cancer diagnosis. Fair enough.

But he had some kind of woman posturing herself as an expert going on and on about how illness in the family can heal family rifts (vis a vis Harry)

Which I'm sure it does in many cases and I don't object to as a viewpoint.

But rather than acknowledge AT ANY POINT that sometimes estrangement is better than remaining in an abusive situation she kept going on and on "families are bound together FOREVER. You are better off accepting that people are flawed because FAMILIES LOVE EACH OTHER AND LOOK OUT FOR EACH OTHER."

I accept it's her viewpoint but it's really hurtful to hear someone shouting on the radio about how estrangement is just a rift that can be healed as love and support is there when you've been abused in your own family and removed yourself and your children from it to prevent further abuse.

Just wondered if anyone else heard her hectoring on and on and if it triggered them, too?

I've been estranged from my family for 7 years due to rampant sexual abuse in the family and because no way was I letting my kids be the next victims, so I have absolutely zero regrets.

I just hate this culture of minimising estrangement as a petty rift, feels like collusion with allowing abuse to go on in the name of 'family'.

i listened and found it useful, They were not talking about abuse, no one should be with anyone abusive. The lack of empathy from the daughter on her reasons for estranging her parents was eye opening and helped me, they literally got on her nerves, her parents are better without such a person, I hope they heard it and realise how better off they are without her
parents have no alternative but to accept what a much loved child does when they become adults and they cant change anything but their attitude
Children of abuse, every day you seem to hear cases of cruelty and neglect and social services have such high case loads that some endure at the hands of cruel parent, when they grow up I hope somehow they walk away and estrange and do good and make the remainder of their lives good and not repeat learnt behaviour. So estrangement from such people is necessary, they have no alternative.
theres a world of difference between abuse and someone no longer being relevant to you.
i hope thus subject is explored more

Family estrangement is complex I am estranged from mine not really because anything happened but because my parents never ever been interested in me now they are not interested in my children who are there only grandchildren . I have tried nicely to point a few things out over the years , nothing changed, so I had to stop it was too painful. I don’t tell them anything anymore they never ask if we all died they would not notice or care