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[quote=Anonymous]This is based on partly my own experience, and partly my observation of other families and stories I heard from my therapist.  When you are estranged from a parent for reasons that stem from the parent’s own upbringing (how they were raised), the more they deny their wrong doing or refuse to acknowledge your suffering, the more pain you feel and the further you pull away, and you hate them more and more, but if they accept the criticism and acknowledge your feelings, you start feeling bad about having brought it up, because now you opened their wounds.  Note that I am not talking about offenses like sexual abuse or physical abuse, I am talking about issues caused by their own upbringing.  For example, emotionally unavailable parents who were raised by emotionally unavailable parents themselves (maybe this is not a good example because I doubt emotionally unavailable parents would ever apologize?)
Do you ever feel this way?  What are your thoughts on this paradox?  
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