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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who cut off a sibling, please stop reaching out to him. My brother doesn't respect that I want nothing to do with him. Every so often, he'll pop back into my life with an e-mail or text. It's infuriating, to be honest. And I also make it a point to ignore anything from him. Responding would only encourage him to keep contacting me.

Regardless if your brother's reasons for cutting communication were legitimate, they are still his reasons. He doesn't want a relationship with you. Yes, that hurts. But it is his decision. If and when he wants to reconnect, he will be the one to initiate. You can't force it.[/quote]

Op here. I agree it's his choice and I do worry that me continuing to contact him could be making things worse and/or be causing him to feel disrespected. Does it make any difference that it's only handful of times a year and only via snail mail? I guess I thought that was less intrusive somehow than email or text but maybe not necessarily.

It's hard because he's never told me to stop contacting him and it's not like we ever had a fight or conversation where he told me he was done with our relationship. He just ghosted me. If he tells me to stop I agree I have no choice but to stop. Do you think him ignoring me is the same thing as telling me to stop contacting him? Genuine question here.[/quote]

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